Naughty Baby (film)

Naughty Baby
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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	December 16, 1928 (1928-12-16)
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

Rosalind McGill is a cloak room girl. She falls for a rich boy, who may not actually be rich.

Cast

• 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

The film featured the theme song entitled "I'm After That Baby" which was composed by Gerard Carbonara.

Preservation

The film was considered a lost film, 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.

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

External links

• Naughty Baby at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Naughty Baby at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Naughty Baby at silentera.com