Baby Mine (1928 film)

1928 film

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  • January 8, 1928 (1928-01-08)
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    6 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent 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

    • Karl Dane - Oswald Hardy
    • George K. Arthur - Jimmy Hemingway
    • Charlotte Greenwood - Emma
    • Louise Lorraine - Helen
    • Neal Dodd

    Reception

    Still of the film, showing Greenwood and Dane

    Dane and Greenwood were praised by Los Angeles Times critic Philip K. Scheuer, who described the film as "continuously funny".[4]

    Preservation status

    Baby Mine is now considered a lost film.[5][6]

    References

    1. ^ Baby Mine at silentera.com
    2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
    3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Baby Mine
    4. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (January 7, 1928). "Three-ply Bill Made for Laughs". Los Angeles Times. Part II, p. 7. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
    5. ^ Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files (Metro-MGM) - 1928, online resource on lost studio films Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
    6. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Baby Mine
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