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So Long Letty is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 16 october 1929 with Charlotte Greenwood
So Long Letty (1929)
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Add to a movie listSo Long Letty is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Charlotte Greenwood, reprising her role from the 1916 Broadway stage play. The story had previously been filmed as a silent under the same title in 1920 with Colleen Moore.
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Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty which causes him to leave the Hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.Actors
Charlotte Greenwood
(Letty Robbins)
Grant Withers
(Harry Miller)
Claude Gillingwater
(Uncle Claude)
Patsy Ruth Miller
(Grace Miller)
Bert Roach
(Tommy Robbins)
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