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 and is her third feature film, she having made two previous films in 1916 and 1918.[1][2][3]
Cast
[edit]- Karl Dane - Oswald Hardy
- George K. Arthur - Jimmy Hemingway
- Charlotte Greenwood - Emma
- Louise Lorraine - Helen
- Neal Dodd
Reception
[edit]
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 silent comedy film stubs