Why Leave Home?

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Why Leave Home?
Why Leave Home? ad in The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1929 (page 1467 crop).jpg
Directed byRaymond Cannon
Screenplay byRobert S. Carr
Walter Catlett
Based onCradle Snatchers
by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell
Produced byMalcolm Stuart Boylan
StarringSue Carol
Nick Stuart
Dixie Lee
Ilka Chase
Walter Catlett
Gordon De Main
CinematographyDaniel B. Clark
Edited byJack Murray
Music byCon Conrad
Archie Gottler
Sidney D. Mitchell
Production
company
Fox Film Corporation
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • August 25, 1929 (1929-08-25)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Why Leave Home? is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Raymond Cannon and written by Robert Spencer Carr and Walter Catlett. The film stars Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase, Walter Catlett, and Gordon De Main. The film was released on August 25, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation.[1][2][3] It is a remake of Cradle Snatchers (1927).[4] Why Leave Home? was later remade in 1943 as Let's Face It with Bob Hope.

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Preservation status[]

  • Why Leave Home? is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Why Leave Home? (1929) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  2. ^ Hal Erickson (2016). "Why-Leave-Home- - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  3. ^ "Why Leave Home?". Afi.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  4. ^ American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. 1921-1930. Vol. F2. University of California Press. p. 898. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
  5. ^ Why Leave Home? at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost 1929 Fox films

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