A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Bringing Up Father
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6344 feet
Directed by Jack Conway

Cast: J. Farrell MacDonald [Jiggs], Jules Cowles [Dinty Moore], Polly Moran [Maggie], Marie Dressler [Annie Moore], Gertrude Olmstead [Ellen], Grant Withers [Dennis], Andres De Segurola [the count], Rose Dione [Mrs. Smith], David Mir [Oswald], Tenen Holtz [Ginsberg Feitelbaum], Toto the dog

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Frances Marion, [?] from a screen story by George McManus? based on the comic strip “Bringing Up Father” by George McManus. Production design by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Cinematography by William Daniels. Film editor, Margaret Booth. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. / © 17 March 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP25177]. Released 17 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Silent film?

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 24 April 2016.

References: ClasIm-330 p. 46 : Website-AFI.