{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Why Leave Home? | image = Why Leave Home? ad in The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1929 (page 1467 crop).jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Raymond Cannon | producer = Malcolm Stuart Boylan | screenplay = Robert S. Carr<br>Walter Catlett | based_on = {{based on|''Cradle Snatchers''|Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell}} | starring = Sue Carol<br>Nick Stuart<br>Dixie Lee<br>Ilka Chase<br>Walter Catlett<br>Gordon De Main | music = Con Conrad<br>Archie Gottler<br>Sidney D. Mitchell | cinematography = Daniel B. Clark | editing = Jack Murray | studio = Fox Film Corporation | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1929|8|25}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Why Leave Home?''''' is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code comedy film directed by Raymond Cannon and written by Robert Spencer Carr and Walter Catlett. The film stars Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase, Walter Catlett, and Gordon De Main. The film was released on August 25, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95761/why-leave-home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124072331/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95761/why-leave-home |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |title=Why Leave Home? (1929) – Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/116921/Why-Leave-Home-/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310143644/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/116921/Why-Leave-Home-/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |title=Why-Leave-Home- - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2016 |accessdate=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13297 |title=Why Leave Home? |publisher=Afi.com |date= |accessdate=October 22, 2015}}</ref> It is a remake of ''Cradle Snatchers'' (1927).<ref>{{cite book |last=American Film Institute |author-link=American Film Institute |title =The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States |publisher =University of California Press |series=1921-1930 |volume=F2 |year=1997 |page=898 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |isbn=0-520-20969-9}}</ref> ''Why Leave Home?'' was later remade in 1943 as ''Let's Face It'' with Bob Hope.
==Cast== *Sue Carol as Mary *Nick Stuart as Dick *Dixie Lee as Billie *Ilka Chase as Ethel *Walter Catlett as Elmer *Gordon De Main as Roy *Dot Farley as Susan *Laura Hamilton as Maude *Richard Keene as Jose *Jean Laverty as Jackie *Jed Prouty as George
==Preservation status== *''Why Leave Home?'' is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files.<ref>[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefox.html ''Why Leave Home?'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:''lost 1929 Fox films'']</ref>
==See also== * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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== External links == *{{IMDb title|0020587|Why Leave Home?}}
Category:1929 films Category:1929 comedy films Category:1929 lost films Category:1929 American films Category:1929 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:English-language comedy films Category:Films directed by Raymond Cannon (actor) Category:Fox Film films Category:Lost American comedy films
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