Bringing Up Father (1946 film)

Bringing Up Father
Bringing Up Father
Directed by	Edward F. Cline
Written by	Jerry Warner (screenplay)
Starring	Joe Yule; Renie Riano
Cinematography	L. William O'Connell
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	November 23, 1946;
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bringing Up Father is a 1946 American comedy film, based on the comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus, about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs.

McManus briefly appears here as himself. This 1946 production is subsequent to a number of previous Maggie and Jiggs movies, both animated and live-action, notably a silent 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Jack Conway. This one was successful enough to inspire four more Monogram sequels:

Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1948)
Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)
Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950)

All five of these featured former vaudevillian Joe Yule (father of Mickey Rooney) as Jiggs, and were his final films.

Plot

One of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in getting an undesirable tenant evicted, a tenant who turns out to be Jiggs himself. Meanwhile, Jiggs rounds up his friends from the bar to defend his turf.

Cast

Joe Yule as Jiggs
Renie Riano as Maggie Jiggs
Tim Ryan as Dinty Moore
June Harrison as Nora Jiggs
Wallace Chadwell as Danny
Tom Kennedy as Murphy
Laura Treadwell as Mrs. Kermishaw
William Frambes as Junior Kermishaw
Pat Goldin as Dugan
Jack Norton as Norton
Ferris Taylor as F. Newson Kermishaw
Tom Dugan as Hod Carrier
Joe Devlin as Casey
Fred Kelsey as Tom
Charles C. Wilson as Frank
Bob Carleton as Pianist
George McManus as himself

External links

Bringing Up Father at IMDb

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