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===Live-action feature films=== The following feature-length films were based on the strip: * ''[[Bringing Up Father (1928 film)|Bringing Up Father]]'' (1928) [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]: Silent comedy directed by [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]], written by [[Frances Marion]] with titles by [[Ralph Spence (screenwriter)|Ralph Spence]], starring [[J. Farrell MacDonald]] as Jiggs, [[Polly Moran]] as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter (renamed "Ellen"), and Jules Cowles and [[Marie Dressler]] as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore. * ''[[Vihtori ja Klaara]]'' ([[Finland]], 1939): The first sound comedy based on the strip, although the characters are speaking Finnish; directed by filmmaker [[Teuvo Tulio]]. The ''[[Jiggs and Maggie (film series)|Jiggs and Maggie]]'' film series, all released by [[Monogram Pictures]]: * ''[[Bringing Up Father (1946 film)|Bringing Up Father]]'' (1946) directed by [[Edward F. Cline]] and written by Cline, Barney Gerard and Jerry Warner, starring [[Joe Yule]] as Jiggs, Renie Riano as Maggie, George McManus (as himself), [[Tim Ryan (actor)|Tim Ryan]] as the stingy and belligerent Dinty Moore, and Pat Goldin as the ever-silent Dugan. * ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Society]]'' (1948) * ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Court]]'' (1948) * ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters]]'' (1949) * ''[[Jiggs and Maggie Out West]]'' (1950) The series was discontinued due to the death of Joe Yule in March 1950. Yule is the father of [[Mickey Rooney]], who expressed interest in reviving Jiggs onstage in the late 1980s. Both [[Martha Raye]] and [[Cloris Leachman]] were considered for the part of Maggie, but the project was never produced.
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