Baby Mine (1928 film)
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| Baby Mine | |
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_advertisement.jpg) 1928 newspaper advertisement for Baby Mine | |
| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Written by | Sylvia Thalberg (adaptation) Lew Lipton (scenario) F. Hugh Herbert (scenario) Ralph Spence (intertitles) |
| Based on | Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo |
| Produced by | Louis B. Mayer Irving Thalberg Robert Z. Leonard |
| Starring | Karl Dane George K. Arthur Charlotte Greenwood |
| Cinematography | Faxon M. Dean |
| Edited by | Sam Zimbalist |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | |
Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film (English intertitles) |
Baby Mine is a 1928 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This film is a remake of the 1917 film Baby Mine, both being based on Margaret Mayo's 1910 Broadway comedy Baby Mine. This film stars Karl Dane, George K. Arthur and Charlotte Greenwood.[1][2][3]
Cast
[edit]- Karl Dane - Oswald Hardy
- George K. Arthur - Jimmy Hemingway
- Charlotte Greenwood - Emma
- Louise Lorraine - Helen
- Neal Dodd
Reception
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Dane and Greenwood were praised by Los Angeles Times critic Philip K. Scheuer, who described the film as "continuously funny".[4]
Preservation status
[edit]Baby Mine is now considered a lost film.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Baby Mine at silentera.com
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Baby Mine
- ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (January 7, 1928). "Three-ply Bill Made for Laughs". Los Angeles Times. Part II, p. 7. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ^ Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files (Metro-MGM) - 1928, online resource on lost studio films Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Baby Mine
External links
[edit]- Baby Mine at IMDb
- Baby Mine at SilentEra
- Baby Mine synopsis at AllMovie
- Swedish release lobby poster(Wayback Machine)
- lantern slide
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Categories:
- 1928 films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard
- American films based on plays
- Lost American comedy films
- Silent American comedy films
- Remakes of American films
- 1928 comedy films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- American black-and-white films
- 1928 lost films
- Films with screenplays by F. Hugh Herbert
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- 1920s silent comedy film stubs