---
title: 'Why Leave Home? (1929)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Raymond Cannon'
released: '1929-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/why-leave-home-1929'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020587/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Why Leave Home? (1929)

1929 · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

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. It is a remake of Cradle Snatchers (1927). Why Leave Home? was later remade in 1943 as Let's Face It with Bob Hope.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Raymond Cannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-cannon)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Spencer Carr](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-spencer-carr)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Con Conrad](https://cinepixo.com/people/con-conrad)
- **Producer:** [Malcolm Stuart Boylan](https://cinepixo.com/people/malcolm-stuart-boylan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Daniel B. Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-b-clark)
- **Editor:** [Jack Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-murray)

## Cast

- [Sue Carol](https://cinepixo.com/people/sue-carol)

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