Naughty Baby (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
Written by | Charles Beahan (story) Garrett Fort Gerald Geraghty Thomas J. Geraghty |
Starring | Alice White Jack Mulhall Thelma Todd Doris Dawson James Ford |
Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
Edited by | LeRoy Stone |
Music by | Gerard Carbonara |
Distributed by | First National Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
Naughty Baby is a 1928 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Alice White and Jack Mulhall. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. It was released on December 16, 1928, by First National Pictures.
Plot
[edit]Rosalind McGill is a cloak room girl. She falls for a rich boy, who may not actually be rich.
Cast
[edit]- Alice White as Rosalind McGill
- Jack Mulhall as Terry Vandeveer
- Thelma Todd as Bonnie Le Vonne
- Doris Dawson as Polly
- James Ford as Terry's pal
- Natalie Joyce as Goldie Torres
- Frances Hamilton as Bonnie's pal
- Fred Kelsey as Dugan
- Rose Dione as Madame Fleurette
- Fanny Midgley as Mary Ellen Toolen
- Larry Banthim as Toolen
- Georgie Stone as Tony Caponi
- Benny Rubin as Benny Cohen
- Andy Devine as Joe Cassidy
- Raymond Turner as Terry's valet
Music
[edit]The film featured the theme song entitled "I'm After That Baby" which was composed by Gerard Carbonara.
Preservation
[edit]The film was considered a lost film,[1] with only the Vitaphone soundtrack still in existence. However, a print of Naughty Baby was discovered at the Museum of Modern Art film archive in 2017.[2]
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naughty Baby (film).
- Naughty Baby at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Naughty Baby at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Naughty Baby at silentera.com
Categories:
- 1928 films
- 1928 romantic comedy films
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- 1920s rediscovered films
- American black-and-white films
- American romantic comedy films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- Films with screenplays by Garrett Fort
- First National Pictures films
- Rediscovered American films
- Silent American romantic comedy films
- Surviving American silent films
- Synchronized sound films
- Silent comedy film stubs