Lummox
Cast & Crew
Herbert Brenon
Winifred Westover
Dorothy Janis
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Ida Darling
Ben Lyon
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Synopsis
Bertha, a ponderous, inarticulate servant ("Lummox") is dismissed from a boardinghouse for interfering to save Chita, a fellow worker, from the advances of sailor, and she finds work as a cook in the home of wealthy Mrs. Farley, whose son, Rollo, a poet, seduces her; learning he is engaged to a society girl, Bertha leaves, disguising her condition. After the birth of her son, she consents to his adoption by a wealthy family who promise to give him every advantage. Bertha nurses Mrs. Wallenstein, an aged woman despised by her daughter-in-law, May; rather than see her taken away to an institution, Bertha allows her to die but is accused of murder and driven from the house; she then strikes up a friendship with Willie, a slow-witted servant who works for the Bixbys, who are keeping her child. Bertha serves for many years in the home of Mrs. Ossetrich but is dismissed because of a theft committed by Chita, whom she has helped. One evening she is drawn to a piano recital, and she is at last fulfilled by the music of her son, whom she never meets.
Director
Herbert Brenon
Cast
Winifred Westover
Dorothy Janis
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Ida Darling
Ben Lyon
Myrta Bonillas
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
Anita Bellew
Robert Ullman
Clara Langsner
William Collier Jr.
Edna Murphy
Torben Meyer
Fan Bourke
Myrtle Stedman
Danny O'shea
William Bakewell
Sidney Franklin
Crew
Jack Danielson
David Forrest
Park French
Marie Halvey
Fannie Hurst
Ray Lissner
Elizabeth Meehan
William Cameron Menzies
Alice O'neill
Hugo Riesenfeld
Joseph M. Schenck
Karl Struss
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