| 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 | 7reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Sound (Synchronized) (EnglishIntertitles) |
Naughty Baby is a 1928 American synchronizedsoundcomedy film directed byMervyn LeRoy and starringAlice White andJack Mulhall. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using thesound-on-discVitaphone process. It was released on December 16, 1928, byFirst National Pictures.[1]
Rosalind McGill is a cloak room girl. She falls for a rich boy, who may not actually be rich.
The film featured the theme song entitled "I'm After That Baby" which was composed by Gerard Carbonara.
WhenNaughty Baby was released, many states and cities in the United States hadcensor boards that could require cuts or other eliminations before the film could be shown. The Kansas censor board ordered a cut of anintertitle with the caption, "Don't come near me. I've no more clothes on than a sardine."[2]
The film was considered alost film,[3] with only theVitaphone soundtrack still in existence. However, a print ofNaughty Baby was discovered at theMuseum of Modern Art film archive in 2017.[4] A complete set of Vitaphone discs are in the film archive at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles.[5]
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