Naughty Baby (film)

Naughty Baby
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;
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,^[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]

References

External links

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

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[1] Naughty Baby at Lost Film Files: First National Pictures - 1928 Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

[2] 2 Film Discoveries Worth Noting: Alice White and Billie Dove at NitrateVille

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