Walking My Baby Back Home (film)
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Written by | Oscar Brodney Don McGuire |
| Produced by | Ted Richmond Leonard Goldstein |
| Starring | Donald O'Connor Janet Leigh Buddy Hackett |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
| Music by | Henry Mancini (uncredited) |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.8 million[1] |
Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett.[2] It was Hackett's film debut.[3]
Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays a middle aged former film star, Grace Wheeler, who nostalgically watches the film; Walking My Baby Back Home music composer Henry Mancini was the composer of the Columbo theme music as well.[4]
Donald O'Connor enjoyed working with Janet Leigh.
She hadn't danced in years but was a real trouper. Nine times out of 10 we'd do all those beautiful dance routines on cement, and she got very tired, started falling a lot on her knees. And her knees started to swell three times their normal size. It was very painful. On the screen you can't tell how she was suffering in that darn thing.[5]
Plot
[edit]A World War II veteran joins a minstrel show and falls in love with the daughter of the troupe's patriarch.
Cast
[edit]- Donald O'Connor as Clarence "Jigger" Miller
- Janet Leigh as Chris Hall
- Buddy Hackett as Blimp Edwards
- Lori Nelson as Claire Millard
- Scatman Crothers as "Smiley" Gordon
- Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Millard
- George Cleveland as Col. Dan Wallace
- John Hubbard as Rodney Millard
- Norman Abbott as Doc
- Phil Garris as Hank
- Walter Kingsford as Uncle Henry Hall
- Sidney Miller as Walter Thomas
- The Modernaires as themselves
- The Sportsmen Quartet as themselves (credited as The Sportsmen)
References
[edit]- ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada
- ^ "Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13.
- ^ "Buddy Hackett - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ Vincentelli, Elizabeth (July 24, 2020). "Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love 'Columbo'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ Mindy Aloff (October 7, 2003). "Remembering a Hoofer, Donald O'Connor interview". Danceviewtimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
External links
[edit]- Walking My Baby Back Home at IMDb
- Walking My Baby Back Home at the TCM Movie Database
- Walking My Baby Back Home at AllMovie
- Walking My Baby Back Home at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
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