Bringing Up Father
5.7
“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.
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Cast
12 people
Marie Dressler
Annie Moore
Known for
Dinner at Eight
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Polly Moran
Maggie Jiggs
Known for
Adam's Rib
Show People
J. Farrell MacDonald
Jiggs
Known for
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
My Darling Clementine
Jules Cowles
Dinty Moore
Known for
Seven Chances
The Lost World
Gertrude Olmstead
Ellen
Also in
The Monster
The Boob
Grant Withers
Dennis
Known for
Rio Grande
My Darling Clementine
Andrés de Segurola
The Count
Also in
One Night of Love
The Red Dance
Rose Dione
Mrs. Smith
Also in
Freaks
Salomé
David Mir
Oswald
Also in
The Matinee Idol
La Bohème
Tenen Holtz
Ginsberg Feitelbaum
Known for
Show People
Blanche Payson
Known for
Helpmates
Below Zero
Margaret Lee
uncredited
Jack Conway Director · Frances Marion Writer Ralph Spence Writer
United States release March 18, 1928 · Produced in United States
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · March 18, 1928
Theatrical
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