Why Leave Home? Explained

Why Leave Home?
Director:Raymond Cannon
Producer:Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Screenplay:Robert S. Carr
Walter Catlett
Starring:Sue Carol
Nick Stuart
Dixie Lee
Ilka Chase
Walter Catlett
Gordon De Main
Music:Con Conrad
Archie Gottler
Sidney D. Mitchell
Cinematography:Daniel B. Clark
Editing:Jack Murray
Studio:Fox Film Corporation
Distributor:Fox Film Corporation
Runtime:70 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Why Leave Home? is a 1929 American pre-Code 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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Why Leave Home? (1929) – Overview . TCM.com . October 22, 2015.
  2. Web site: Why-Leave-Home- - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310143644/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/116921/Why-Leave-Home-/overview . dead . March 10, 2016 . Movies & TV Dept. . . . Hal Erickson . Hal Erickson (author) . 2016 . October 22, 2015.
  3. Web site: Why Leave Home? . Afi.com . October 22, 2015.
  4. Book: American Film Institute . American Film Institute . The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States . University of California Press . 1921-1930 . F2 . 1997 . 898 . 0-520-20969-9.
  5. http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefox.html Why Leave Home? at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost 1929 Fox films