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Bringing Up Father is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jack Conway released in USA on 18 march 1928 with Marie Dressler
Bringing Up Father (1928)
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Add to a movie listBringing Up Father is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Marie Dressler, Polly Moran and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was based on the newspaper cartoons 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.
Actors
Marie Dressler
(Annie Moore)
Polly Moran
(Maggie Jiggs)
J. Farrell MacDonald
(Jiggs)
Gertrude Olmstead
(Ellen)
Grant Withers
(Dennis)
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