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Why Men Leave Home
(1924) American
B&W : Eight reels / 8002 feet
Directed by John M. Stahl

Cast: Lewis Stone [John Emerson], Helene Chadwick [Irene Emerson], Mary Carr [Grandma Sutton], William V. Mong [Grandpa Sutton], Alma Bennett [Jena Ralston], Hedda Hopper [Nina Neilson], Sidney Bracey [Sam Neilson], Lila Leslie [Betty Phillips], E.H. Calvert [Arthur Phillips], Howard Truesdell [Doctor Bailey]

Louis B. Mayer Productions production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by A.P. Younger, from the play Why Men Leave Home by Avery Hopwood. Art direction by Jack Holden. Assistant director, Sidney Algier. Cinematography by Sol Polito. Edited by Robert Kern and Margaret Booth. Presented by Louis B. Mayer. / © 13 March 1924 by Louis B. Mayer Productions [LP19986; LP20057]. Released 3 March 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 8 May 2012.

References: ClasIm-330 p. 46 : Website-AFI.