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Cradle Snatchers
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Wikipedia article
'Cradle Snatchers' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Hackett, Gene Raymond and Humphrey Bogart. An incomplete copy, missing part of reel 3 and all of reel 4, exists in the Library of Congress.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CradleSnatchers1927.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Cradle Snatchers'] at silentera.com[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1745/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Cradle Snatchers'][http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3489 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Cradle Snatchers']
The film was later remade as 'Why Leave Home?' (1929).
Plot
Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age.
Cast
*Louise Fazenda as Susan Martin
*Ethel Wales as Ethel Drake
*Dorothy Phillips as Kitty Ladd
*J. Farrell MacDonald as George Martin
*Franklin Pangborn as Howard Drake
*William B. Davidson as Roy Ladd
*Joseph Striker as Joe Valley
*Nick Stuart as Henry Winton
*Arthur Lake as Oscar
*Diane Ellis as Ann Hall (billed Dione Ellis)
*Sammy Cohen as Ike Ginsberg
*Tyler Brooke as Osteopath
References
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