So's Your Old Man (1926) (Movie)

Based on Mr. Bisbee's Princess, a story by Julian Street, So's Your Old Man was the first of two felicitous collaborations between comedian W.C. Fields and director Gregory LaCava. Fields is cast as small-town glazier Sam Bisbee, whose get-rich-quick schemes are driving his imperious wife (Marcia Harris) to distraction. Bisbee's latest invention is an unbreakable glass windshield, which he endeavors to demonstrate at a convention of automobile manufacturers. Alas, the cars are accidentally switched, and when Sam tosses a brick through the windshield, it shatters into a million pieces. On the long train ride home, the dispirited Sam contemplates suicide but is dissuaded when he rescues a beautiful young woman (Alice Joyce) from "poisoning" herself (she was just actually applying iodine to a cut finger). Unbeknownst to our hero, his traveling companion is the fabulously wealthy Princess Lescaboura, who makes a silent vow to repay Sam's kindness. Therefore, when she arrives in our hero's hometown, the princess insists upon visiting her "old friend" Sam Bisbee --whereupon the Bisbee family members, formerly social pariahs, suddenly find themselves lauded as the town's most prominent citizens. For Sam's part, he never does figure out that the princess really is a princess -- he assumes she is merely a clever con artist and willingly goes along with her "racket." So's Your Old Man was remade (and considerably improved) as You're Telling Me, one of W.C. Fields' best talkies.

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Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car's windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee's home town looking for him. Written by Ed Stephan

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So's Your Old Man is a 1926 comedy feature film directed by Gregory La Cava, and starring W.C. Fields in one of his first major roles. Fields plays Samuel Brisbee, a husband and father in Waukeagus, NJ. He is also a professional glazier, and has invented a new shatter-proof glass windshield. His daughter is in love with the young scion of the richest family in town, but Sam's uncouth behavior when the young man's mother comes to visit leads her to forbid the marriage. His wife kicks him out of the house over this. His work goes bad too when he massively screws up a demonstration for auto executives and doesn't sell his new windshield. Sam is contemplating suicide on the train back home when he happens to meet a Spanish princess traveling incognito. The princess resolves to help her new friend out.

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