So's Your Uncle
Cast & Crew
Jean Yarbrough
Billie Burke
Donald Woods
Elyse Knox
Frank Jenks
Robert Lowery
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Synopsis
Playwright and actor Steve Curtis rushes out of the theater where he is trying to mount a production to avoid a creditor, only to be hit by the limousine of beautiful Patricia Williams. Against the advice of her escort, Roger Bright, Patricia insists on taking the injured "middle-aged" man home for medical treatment, unaware that the youthful Steve is wearing character makeup. Soon after his arrival at Patricia's home, Steve, still disguised as an older man, attracts the romantic attentions of her wealthy aunt Minerva. Steve quickly finds himself in a quandary, as he has fallen in love with Patricia, but wants Minerva's money to finance his play. To solve his predicament, he poses as his Uncle John and woos Minerva, while at the same time courting Patricia as himself. In due time, he finds himself engaged to both ladies, with Minerva planning a double wedding. At their engagement party, the jealous Roger attempts to expose Steve's dual roles, but is foiled when Steve's real uncle John arrives and turns out to be physically identical to his nephew's disguise. Steve confesses all to his tycoon uncle, and Minerva then convinces the real Uncle John that the double wedding is still a great idea.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Cast
Billie Burke
Donald Woods
Elyse Knox
Frank Jenks
Robert Lowery
Irving Bacon
Chester Clute
Paul Stanton
Jack Norton
Tom Kennedy
John Dilson
Claire Whitney
William Ruhl
Jack Rice
Rita Gould
Jan Garber
Jack Teagarden
The Delta Rhythm Boys
Mary O'brien <i>and</i> The Taylor-maids
Syd Saylor
John Hamilton
Dick Elliott
Eddie Dunn
Emmett Vogan
Gladys Gale
Anthony Warde
Lew Kelly
Rex Lease
Donald Kerr
Warren Jackson
Phil Warren
Charles Hall
Jacqueline Dalya
Isabelle Lamal
Jack Gardner
Barbara Fleming
Alice Draper
Frank O'connor
Harry Harvey
Edna Harris
Genevieve Bell
Crew
Woody Bredell
Bernard B. Brown
Clyde Bruckman
Milton Carruth
Everett Carter
Robert Clatworthy
Walter Donaldson
Duke Ellington
R. A. Gausman
Joseph Gershenson
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
John B. Goodman
W. C. Handy
Milton Krasner
Paul Landres
Leonard Lee
Maurice Leo
Jess Moulin
Charles Previn
Milton Rosen
Bob Russell
Willard Sheldon
I. S. Webb
Vera West
Jean Yarbrough
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The working title of this film was Let Yourself Go. Hollywood Citizen-News reported in May 1947 that a plagiarism suit concerning this film was successfully filed against Universal and writer Clyde Bruckman by the Harold Lloyd Corp. According to the article, the San Francisco Ninth United States Court of Appeals upheld a $40,000 judgment against Universal, finding that fifty-seven scenes were lifted for this film from the 1931 Lloyd feature Movie Crazy (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films; 1931-40; F3.2978). The court stated that the plagiarism was a deliberate action, as Bruckman had been both the director and a writer on the Lloyd film. According to a December 1947 Hollywood Reporter news item, Walter J. Wise filed a second plagiarism suit against Universal and writer Leonard Lee, claiming that this film was based on his original story "The Young Lady with Gray Hair." That suit, filed in Los Angeles in December 1947, sought $30,000 for use of the story as well as $20,000 in punitive damages for benefits lost that "might have been derived through screen credit and trade paper advertising." The final disposition of this case is not known.
