Why Be Good?

Feb 28, 1929

1h 24m

★ 6.5

A whoopee picture about the wild younger set. The real low down on flaming youth-right from the shoulder, right to your heart. You are the loser if you don't see "Why Be Good."

Overview

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Why Be Good? Trailers

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Cast

Pert Kelly

Colleen Moore

Ma Kelly

Bodil Rosing

Pa Kelly

John St. Polis

Winthrop Peabody Jr.

Neil Hamilton

Winthrop Peabody Sr.

Edward Martindel

Jimmy Alexander

Louis Natheaux

Tom

Lincoln Stedman

Jerry

Eddie Clayton

Julie

Collette Merton

Susie

Dixie Gay

Man Dancing at The Boiler (uncredited)

Mischa Auer

Night Club Show Host (uncredited)

Bobby Burns Berman

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

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