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''So's Your Uncle'' is 1943 comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Billie Burke and Donald Woods (actor), Donald Woods.


Plot

A man impersonates his uncle and runs into trouble with his girlfriend's aunt.


Cast

* Billie Burke as Aunt Minerva * Donald Woods (actor), Donald Woods as Steve Curtis aka Uncle John * Elyse Knox as Patricia Williams * Frank Jenks as Joe Elliott * Robert Lowery (actor), Robert Lowery as Roger Bright * Irving Bacon as Dempster * Chester Clute as Dinwiddle * Paul Stanton (actor), Paul Stanton as John L, Curtis * Jack Norton as Drunk * Tom Kennedy (actor), Tom Kennedy as Cop * John Dilson as Stevens


Lawsuit

The film was part of a lawsuit by Harold Lloyd against Universal Pictures. He claims that the film's writer, Clyde Bruckman, copied sequences from Lloyd's films, ''The Freshman (1925 film), The Freshman'', ''Movie Crazy'' and ''Welcome Danger'' in their films ''Her Lucky Night'', ''So's Your Uncle'' and ''Lucky Man (1995 film), Lucky Man''. The court awarded Lloyd $60,000 for ''Movie Crazy'' being infringed by ''So's Your Uncle''. He settled with Universal for more than $100,000 for the other two films. Bruckman had previously worked with Lloyd on ''Movie Crazy'' and ''Welcome Danger''.


References


External links

* 1943 films American comedy films 1943 comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Jean Yarbrough 1940s American films {{1940s-US-comedy-film-stub