Bringing Up Father

Bringing Up Father (1928)

The Famous Comic Strip Come to Life.

The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.

Date of release
1928-03-18
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jack Conway

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Bringing Up Father

Bringing Up Father is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was based on the newspaper comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. It was remade in 1946 as a sound film, proving popular enough for a spin-off of four Jiggs and Maggie films to be made.

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