So's Your Old Man
1926 film by Gregory La Cava
- October 25, 1926 (1926-10-25)
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So's Your Old Man is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce. It was written by J. Clarkson Miller based on the story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess" by Julian Leonard Street as adapted by Howard Emmett Rogers. It was filmed at Astoria Studios in Queens, New York City.[1]
The film was remade as a talkie in 1934, with W. C. Fields again starring, under the title You're Telling Me! In 2008, So's Your Old Man was added to the United States National Film Registry.[2][3]
Plot
Sam Bisbee (W. C. Fields) is a small-town glazier who's always trying to get rich quick, and his schemes are driving his wife (Marcia Harris) crazy. When he invents an unbreakable glass windshield, his attempt to demonstrate it at a convention of automobile manufacturers is ruined when his car gets switched with another, and instead of bouncing off, the brick he throws at it smashes the windshield to pieces. On the train ride home, Bisbee considers suicide, but instead rescues a pretty young woman (Alice Joyce) who he believes is trying to kill herself. It turns out the woman is really Princess Lescaboura, and their friendship brings social success to the Bisbees.[4][5][6]
Cast
- W. C. Fields as Samuel Bisbee
- Alice Joyce as Princess Lescaboura
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Kenneth Murchison
- Kittens Reichert as Alice Bisbee (credited as Catherine Reichert)
- Marcia Harris as Mrs. Bisbee
- Julia Ralph as Mrs. A. Brandewyne Murchison
- Frank Montgomery as Jeff, a fellow scientist
- Jerry Sinclair as Al
- Frederick Burton as Senator (uncredited)
- Charles Byer as Prince Lescaboura (uncredited)
- Walter Walker as Mayor of Waukeagus (uncredited)
Notes
- ^ IMDB Filming locations
- ^ "Cinematic Classics, Legendary Stars, Comedic Legends and Novice Filmmakers Showcase the 2008 Film Registry" News from the Library of Congress (December 30, 2008)
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ^ Erickson, Hal Overview (Allmovie)
- ^ Stephan, Ed Plot summary (IMDB)
- ^ TCM Full synopsis
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to So's Your Old Man.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
So's Your Old Man
- So's Your Old Man essay by Steve Massa on National Film Registry
- So's Your Old Man essay in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 121–122.
- So's Your Old Man at IMDb
- So's Your Old Man at the TCM Movie Database
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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Films directed by Gregory La Cava
- His Nibs (1921)
- The New School Teacher (1924)
- Restless Wives (1924)
- Womanhandled (1925)
- Let's Get Married (1926)
- Say It Again (1926)
- So's Your Old Man (1926)
- Paradise for Two (1927)
- Running Wild (1927)
- Tell It to Sweeney (1927)
- The Gay Defender (1927)
- Feel My Pulse (1928)
- Half a Bride (1928)
- Big News (1929)
- Saturday's Children (1929)
- His First Command (1929)
- Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
- Smart Woman (1931)
- Symphony of Six Million (1932)
- The Age of Consent (1932)
- The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
- Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
- Bed of Roses (1933)
- Gallant Lady (1934)
- What Every Woman Knows (1934)
- The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
- Private Worlds (1935)
- She Married Her Boss (1935)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
- Primrose Path (1940)
- Unfinished Business (1941)
- Lady in a Jam (1942)
- Living in a Big Way (1947)
- One Touch of Venus (1948)
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