Jiggs and Maggie (film series)

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Jiggs and Maggie
Written byBased on the cartoons of George McManus
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Distributed byMonogram Pictures
Release date
1946-1950
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Jiggs and Maggie are the major characters in a series of films made by Monogram Pictures, a low-budget Hollywood film studio, between 1946 and 1950. Jiggs and Maggie are Irish immigrants to the United States, who constantly argue. The characters were created by the cartoonist George McManus in his long-running strip Bringing Up Father . [1] McManus appears in four of the films, playing himself.

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The characters had originally appeared on screen in the 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Bringing Up Father . In 1946, Monogram made a fresh version starring actors Joe Yule and Renie Riano. Due to the popularity of the first film, a series of four sequels followed.

The final film in the series, Jiggs and Maggie Out West , was released around three weeks after Yule's death in March, 1950.

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References

  1. Drew p.170

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