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. Here, 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.

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:

Bringing Up Father (1946 film)

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)

Bringing Up Father (1946 film)

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

Bringing Up Father (1946 film)

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

1946 films

1946 romantic comedy films

American romantic comedy films

Bringing Up Father

Films based on American comics

Films based on comic strips

Films directed by Edward F. Cline

Live-action films based on comics

Monogram Pictures films

1940s English-language films

1940s American films