
Bringing Up Father
1928-03-18 · 70 min · ★ 5.0
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.
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- Directors
- Jack Conway
- Production companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Marie DresslerAnnie Moore
Polly MoranMaggie Jiggs
J. Farrell MacDonaldJiggs
Jules CowlesDinty Moore
Gertrude OlmsteadEllen
Grant WithersDennis
Andrés de SegurolaThe Count
Rose DioneMrs. Smith
Tenen HoltzGinsberg Feitelbaum
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