Cradle Snatchers is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Hackett, Gene Raymond, and Humphrey Bogart. Progressive Silent Film List: The Cradle Snatchers at silentera.comThe AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Cradle Snatchers
The film was remade as Why Leave Home? (1929).
Plot
Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged men during the Jazz Age.
Cast Louise Fazenda as Susan Martin Ethel Wales as Ethel Drake Dorothy Phillips as Kitty Ladd J. Farrell MacDonald as George Martin Franklin Pangborn as Howard Drake William B. Davidson as Roy Ladd Joseph Striker as Joe Valley Nick Stuart as Henry Winton Arthur Lake as Oscar Diane Ellis as Ann Hall (credited as Dione Ellis) Sammy Cohen as Ike Ginsberg Tyler Brooke as Osteopath
Preservation An incomplete print of Cradle Snatchers, missing part of reel 3 and all of reel 4, is in the collection of the Library of Congress.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Cradle Snatchers
References
External links
Press or lobby advert Stills and lobby cards at Howard Hawks Hollywood website (incomplete version)