Sweet Daddies (1926)
1h 10m
Running Time
June 12, 1926Release Date
Plot.
Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events. This film is lost.
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Cast & Crew.
George Sidney
Abie Finklebaum
Charles Murray
Patrick O'Brien
Vera Gordon
Rose Finklebaum
Jobyna Ralston
Mariam Finklebaum
Jack Mulhall
Jimmy O'Brien
Gaston Glass
Sam Berkowitz
Aggie Herring
Mrs. O'Brien
Alfred Santell
Director
Arthur Edeson
Director of Photography
Frank Lawrence
Editor
George Marion Jr.
Writer
Jack Okey
Art Direction
W.C. Clifford
Adaptation
Lorin Andrews Lathrop
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 12, 1926
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 10m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
silent film
lost film
Wiki.
Sweet Daddies is a 1926 American silent comedy crime film directed by Alfred Santell and starring George Sidney, Charles Murray, and Vera Gordon. The film foregrounds positive relationships between Jewish and Irish American characters, despite the presence of some stereotypes.
The plot revolves around comedic mishaps in the bootleg liquor business. The romance between the daughter of the Jewish Finkelstein family and the son of the Irish O’Brien family ends happily.