Lummox (1930)

Directors

Herbert Brenon

Cast

Winifred Westover

The story

Bertha Oberg, an uneducated Swedish servant, is known by the derogatory nickname Lummox, which means a slow or stupid person, and is criticized by most people she meets. However, Rollo Farley, her employers' son, feels inspired by Bertha and writes poetry about her, with lines that include "A tower of silence under the sea." Rollo seduces Bertha, and when she later discovers she is pregnant, she leaves her employment without telling anyone of her condition. Her child is given to a wealthy family, and she sometimes learns about him from one of the family's servants.

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