Hold That Baby!

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Frankie Darro, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Anabel Shaw in Hold That Baby! (1949)

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat them out of their inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby, and anyone who helps them.

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The boys find a baby amid the bundles in their new laundry business, the heir to a fortune left in their care in his mother's desperate attempt to stave off conniving relatives.The boys find a baby amid the bundles in their new laundry business, the heir to a fortune left in their care in his mother's desperate attempt to stave off conniving relatives.The boys find a baby amid the bundles in their new laundry business, the heir to a fortune left in their care in his mother's desperate attempt to stave off conniving relatives.

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- Reginald Le Borg
Writers
- Charles R. Marion
- Gerald Schnitzer
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6.1/10

290

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Director
- Reginald Le Borg
Writers
- Charles R. Marion
- Gerald Schnitzer
Stars

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Trivia
The 14th of 48 Bowery Boys movies released from 1946 to 1958.

Goofs
When Sach returns to the baby carriage, there is one extra carriage present, setting up the gag of taking the wrong baby; however, the additional carriage was at the far right and Sach takes the same carriage he left.

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[last lines]
Slip Mahoney: Sometimes I doubt my own verbacity - whatever THAT means.

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Followed by Angels in Disguise (1949)

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8/10

Five Bowery Boys and a Baby

The habitually unemployed "Bowery Boys" are losers at the laundromat; so, entrepreneurial Leo Gorcey (as Slip Mahoney) decides to "take in" laundry, using the spare room at father Bernard (as "Louie")'s Sweet Shop". As usual, Mr. Gorcey is amusingly assisted by Huntz Hall (as Sach De Bussy Jones), who fantasizes about "Cynthia", his department store wax dummy girlfriend. William "Billy" Benedict (as Whitey), Benny "Bennie" Bartlett (as Butch), and David Gorcey (as Chuck) are also on hand. During the expected washing machine mishaps, a mysterious woman (Anabel Shaw) leaves a baby at "Mahoney Enterprises"...

"Hold That Baby!" finds the comedy team of Gorcey & Hall in fine form. Hall's scenes with "Cynthia" are a highlight, along with the entire "Midvale Sanitarium" sequence - watch as quick-thinking Gorcey passes Hall off as a nut-house hopeful, and poses as a bumbling doctor. The Charles R. Marion & George Schnitzer screenplay is excellent; and, each Jan Grippo performer is perfectly cast, with the entire production running very smoothly. It's ably directed by Reginald Le Borg, and features particularly outstanding appearances by Ida Moore and Florence Auer (as Faith and Hope Andrews), a delightfully greedy old duo.

******** Hold That Baby! (6/26/49) Reginald Le Borg ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ida Moore, Florence Auer