Why Leave Home?

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Why Leave Home?
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Directed by Raymond Cannon
Screenplay by Robert S. Carr
Walter Catlett
Based onCradle Snatchers
by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell
Produced by Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Starring Sue Carol
Nick Stuart
Dixie Lee
Ilka Chase
Walter Catlett
Gordon De Main
Cinematography Daniel B. Clark
Edited by Jack Murray
Music by Con Conrad
Archie Gottler
Sidney D. Mitchell
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • August 25, 1929 (1929-08-25)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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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  1. "Why Leave Home? (1929) – Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  2. Hal Erickson (2016). "Why-Leave-Home- - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  3. "Why Leave Home?". Afi.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  4. American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. 1921-1930. Vol. F2. University of California Press. p. 898. ISBN   0-520-20969-9.
  5. Why Leave Home? at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost 1929 Fox films