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Why Leave Home?
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6388 feet / 70 minutes
Directed by Raymond Cannon

Cast: Sue Carol [Mary], Nick Stuart [Dick], Dixie Lee [Billie], Ilka Chase [Ethel], Walter Catlett [Elmer], David Rollins [Oscar], Jean Bary (Jean Laverty) [Jackie], Jed Prouty [George], Richard Keene [Jose], Laura Hamilton [Maude], Dot Farley [Susan], Gordon De Main [Roy], Gus Arnheim [himself], Fred MacMurray [an orchestra musician]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Associate producer, Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Screenplay by Robert S. Carr, with dialogue by Walter Catlett, from the play Cradle Snatchers by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell. Songs “Doing the Boom-Boom,” “Look What You’ve Done to Me” and “Bonita,” by Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler and Con Conrad (music and lyrics); “Too Wonderful for Words,” by Dave Stamper (music) and Harlan Thompson (lyrics). Staged by Walter Catlett. Assistant director, Clark Murray. Cinematography by Daniel Clark (Daniel B. Clark). Sound recording engineer, Frank McKenzie. Film editor, Jack Murray. Presented by William Fox. / © 22 August 1929 by Fox Film Corporation [LP626]. Released 25 August 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. Western Electric Movietone synchronized sound system. / The play was previously filmed as The Cradle Snatchers (1927). The play was subsequently filmed as Let’s Face It (1943). / Full-sound film.

Comedy-Drama: Musical.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 18 October 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
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