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Jun 17, 2013 · Bringing Up Father was the first American comic strip to achieve worldwide fame: during its hedayk in the early 1940s, it appeared in almost 400 newspapers in 22 countries, an international readership then without equal. And its creator was probably the highest paid cartoonist on the planet with a salary of $104,000 a year.
Bringing Up Father. Born of Irish parents, George McManus cast a humorous eye on the immigrant experience in early-twentieth-century America in his very successful comic strip Bringing Up Father (also known as “Jiggs and Maggie” for its married main characters). Characterized by slapstick humor, exquisite drawings, and the story of a family ...
65 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Bringing Up Father is a 1946 American comedy film, based on the comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus, about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. McManus briefly appears here as himself.
Bringing Up Father. Jump to Edit. Summaries. Maggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.
Bringing Up Father. A socialite's romantic involvement with a restaurateur's son complicates another's plans to shut down the eatery.
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On January 12, 1913, he debuted Bringing Up Father, about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth via the Irish Sweepstakes means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie.
Bringing Up Father is a 1946 American comedy film, based on the comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus, about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. Here, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in getting an undesirable tenant evicted, a tenant who turns out to be Jiggs himself.
