SO LONG LETTY (1929) Charlotte Greenwood & Claude Gillingwater | Comedy| B&W | Classic Film

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So Long Letty is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Charlotte Greenwood, reprising her role from the 1916 Broadway stage play. The story had previously been filmed as a silent under the same title in 1920 with Colleen Moore.

Synopsis

Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise-talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.

Cast & Crew

Charlotte Greenwood as Letty Robbins
Claude Gillingwater as Uncle Claude
Grant Withers as Harry Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller as Grace Miller
Bert Roach as Tommy Robbins
Marion Byron as Ruth Davis
Helen Foster as Sally Davis
Hallam Cooley as Clarence de Brie
Harry Gribbon as Joe Casey
Lloyd Ingraham as Judge

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Written by: Robert Lord, Arthur Caesar, De Leon Anthony
Based on: So Long Letty (1916 musical)
Starring: Charlotte Greenwood
Cinematography: James Van Trees
Edited by: Jack Killifer
Music by: Louis Silvers, Grant Clarke, Peter DeRose, Charles Tobias, Sidney Clare, Earl Carroll, Harry Akst
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Release Date: October 16, 1929
Running Time: 64 minutes
Language: English