So's Your Uncle

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So's Your Uncle
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Written by Clyde Bruckman
Starring Billie Burke and Donald Woods
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • December 1, 1945 (1945-12-01)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

So's Your Uncle is 1943 comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Billie Burke and Donald Woods.

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Plot

A man impersonates his uncle and runs into trouble with his girlfriend's aunt.

Cast

Lawsuit

The film was part of a lawsuit by Harold Lloyd against Universal Pictures. He claims that the film's writer, Clyde Bruckman, copied sequences from Lloyd's films, The Freshman , Movie Crazy and Welcome Danger in their films Her Lucky Night , So's Your Uncle and Lucky Man . [1] The court awarded Lloyd $60,000 for Movie Crazy being infringed by So's Your Uncle. He settled with Universal for more than $100,000 for the other two films. [2] Bruckman had previously worked with Lloyd on Movie Crazy and Welcome Danger.

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References

  1. "LLOYD FILM FIRM SUES FOR $1,815,000: Charges Universal Co. With Infringement of Copyrights on Three Pictures". New York Times. Apr 5, 1945. p. 26.
  2. "MANUFACTURER'S AGENT EDWIN A. POWELL DIES". Los Angeles Times. Nov 11, 1947. p. A16.