Bringing Up Father

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Bringing Up Father

"The Famous Comic Strip Come to Life."

1928

1h 10m

5.0(4 votes)

Comedy

Overview

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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10 featured cast members

Starring

Marie Dressler

Annie Moore

Polly Moran

Maggie Jiggs

J. Farrell MacDonald

Jiggs

Jules Cowles

Dinty Moore

Gertrude Olmstead

Ellen

Grant Withers

Dennis

Andrés de Segurola

The Count

Rose Dione

Mrs. Smith

David Mir

Oswald

Tenen Holtz

Ginsberg Feitelbaum

Creative team

Directed by: Jack Conway
Written by: Ralph Spence
George McManus

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