Bringing Up Father is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, and J. Farrell MacDonald.Progressive Silent Film List: Bringing Up Father at silentera.com 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.Drew p. 170The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Bringing Up Father
Cast Marie Dressler as Annie Moore Polly Moran as Maggie J. Farrell MacDonald as Jiggs Jules Cowles as Dinty Moore Gertrude Olmstead as Ellen Grant Withers as Dennis Andrés de Segurola as The Count Rose Dione as Mrs. Smith David Mir as Oswald Tenen Holtz as Ginsberg Feitelbaum
Preservation A print was donated by MGM to George Eastman House, Rochester New York.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Bringing Up Father
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Bibliography Drew, Bernard A. Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide. Routledge, 2013.
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