So Long Letty (1929): Cast
So Long Letty is a 1929 music comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Charlotte Greenwood as Letty Robbins, Claude Gillingwater and Marion Byron. It runs 1 hour 4 minutes.
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 4m (64 min)
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
- Original language
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English - Studio
- The Vitaphone Corporation
- After the credits
- No No extra scene
What Is So Long Letty About?
The premise of So Long Letty without spoilers.
Uncle Claude arrives at the Ardmore Beach Hotel with granddaughters Ruth and Sally to visit nephew Tommy and his wife. There he meets Letty, a wise employee, prompting him to leave. Mistaking Grace for his own wife, he admires her neat housekeeping. To secure a check from Claude and try each other's lives, the two couples swap spouses for a week.
So Long Letty Themes & Keywords
· 50 tags- remake
- packing a suitcase
- peeping in a window
- messy house
- jealous husband
- flapper
- party invitation
- girl next door character
- compromising situation
- bald man
- husband wife relationship
- high pressure sale
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- homberg hat
- kissing a bald man's head
- traditional sex role stereotypes
- vacation resort
- smoking a pipe
- working woman
- hit with a door
- ukelele
- wife swapping
- disinherited
- beach
- grandfather granddaughter relationship
- uncle nephew relationship
- pratfall
- candlestick telephone
- hotel
- holding hands
- knitting
- mistaken identity
- beauty shop
- latchkey
- sleeping on a porch
- bobbed hair
- straw hat
- celery
- facial
- beautician
- spouse swapping
- pretending to be married
- flirting with a married woman
- roast beef
- woman sobbing
- hanging up on someone
- comedy of errors
- bickering husband wife relationship
- massager
- reference to the ziegfeld follies
- reference to paul revere
So Long Letty Cast & Characters
Charlotte Greenwood leads the cast as Letty Robbins, with Claude Gillingwater as Uncle Claude Davis and Marion Byron as Ruth Davis. Directed by Lloyd Bacon; 11 actors are credited in all.
- Director Lloyd Bacon
- Charlotte Greenwood as Letty Robbins
- Claude Gillingwater as Uncle Claude Davis
- Marion Byron as Ruth Davis
- Helen Foster as Sally Davis
Also Starring in So Long Letty
· 7 more- Bert Roach Tommy Robbins
- Patsy Ruth Miller Grace Miller
- Lloyd Ingraham Judge
- Grant Withers Harry Miller
- Harry Gribbon Joe Casey
- Hallam Cooley Clarence de Brie
- Jack Grey Police Sergeant
More from Lloyd Bacon
More films directed by Lloyd Bacon, best-rated first: Footlight Parade, 42nd Street, She Couldn’t Say No and The French Line.
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So Long Letty FAQ: Cast, Runtime & Release Date
Runtime, release date, director, cast and post-credit scenes of So Long Letty, each answered in a sentence.
How long is So Long Letty?
So Long Letty runs 1 hour 4 minutes (64 minutes).
When was So Long Letty released?
So Long Letty was released on October 16, 1929.
Who directed So Long Letty?
So Long Letty was directed by Lloyd Bacon.
More films by Lloyd Bacon Who is in the cast of So Long Letty?
So Long Letty stars Charlotte Greenwood as Letty Robbins, Claude Gillingwater as Uncle Claude Davis and Marion Byron as Ruth Davis, among 11 credited actors.
Does So Long Letty have a post-credit scene?
No. So Long Letty has no extra scene during or after the credits.
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