Lummox is a 1930 American pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Winifred Westover.

"[3] Berta Osberg, an uneducated Swedish servant, was given the derogatory nickname of Lummox, which means a slow or stupid person.

Most people she met criticized her, but Rollo Farley, her employers' son, felt inspired by Berta, and wrote poetry about her, with lines that included "A tower of silence under the sea."

She went into a bakery run by a kind widower, and was asked to live in his home and care for his motherless children.

[4] In order to portray the heavyset servant Westover ate fatty food, avoided exercise, and gained forty pounds.

[5] She received praise for her acting, with one newspaper stating: "Winifred Westover’s characterization of the buxom servant girl, whose little world has been the drab atmosphere of cheap lodging houses, shabby humanity and cruel employers, reaches heights rarely ever attained.