| Naughty Baby | |
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 Lobby card | |
| 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
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
References
- Naughty Baby at Lost Film Files: First National Pictures - 1928 Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- 2 Film Discoveries Worth Noting: Alice White and Billie Dove at NitrateVille
External links
- Naughty Baby at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Naughty Baby at IMDb
- Naughty Baby at silentera.com
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- 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
- English-language romantic comedy films
- Silent comedy film stubs