The Higgins Family

Mar 28, 1938

0h 54m

★ 0.0

Overview

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

The Higgins Family Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Joe Higgins

James Gleason

Lillian Higgins

Lucile Gleason

Sidney Higgins

Russell Gleason

Marian Higgins

Lynne Roberts

Grandpa William Jordan

Harry Davenport

Eddie Davis

William Bakewell

Ollie Thornwald

Paul Harvey

George W. Bradshaw

Wallis Clark

Lizzie

Sally Payne

Burgess

Richard Tucker

Miss Keene

Doreen McKay

Reynard, the Director

Franklin Parker

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

6.9

The War of the Roses

Dec 8, 1989

Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.

6.8

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mar 9, 1994

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

6.1

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Jun 7, 2002

A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.

6.2

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Apr 25, 1997

Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.

5.7

Saving Silverman

Feb 9, 2001

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.

6.0

Take Your Best Shot

Oct 12, 1982

An actor whose career has gone flat resolves to pursue a more stable occupation while also trying to save his troubled marriage.

5.7

Nine Months

Jul 12, 1995

When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.

5.9

Shake It All About

Nov 16, 2001

Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl. The girl is Caroline, married to Jørgens younger brother Tom.

5.8

Happily Ever After

Aug 25, 2004

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

5.9

My Wife Is a Gangster

Apr 19, 2001

Eun-jin who is a living legend among the gangsters dominates the male-centered underworld wielding only a pair of her trademark blades. One day, Eun-jin finds her sister from whom she was separated at an orphanage during childhood, and her sister tells Eun-jin that her last dying wish is to see that Eun-jin gets married.

6.9

The Long, Long Trailer

Feb 19, 1954

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

6.1

Carry On Henry

Jun 3, 1971

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair...

7.0

Father of the Bride

May 18, 1950

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

6.6

A Young Miss... Aged 39

Aug 29, 1954

Telemachus, an unhappy old man, still lives with his sister, whom he expects to restore so that he marries the woman he loves. In the end, he is persuaded by a friend to put an ad in the newspaper to find her bridegroom, without mentioning her real age and highlighting her dowry. Finally, two bridal candidates appear: A retired and a Greek-Argentine landowner...

6.7

Monkey Business

Sep 3, 1952

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

7.2

The Importance of Being Earnest

Jun 2, 1952

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

6.1

Lymelife

Sep 8, 2008

A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.

5.0

Galloping Bungalows

Nov 2, 1924

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.

10.0

Copsi

May 1, 2015

A young couple have problems in their marriage.