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Whose Baby?

  • 1929
  • 10m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Glen Cavender, Arthur Lake, and Gertrude Messinger in Whose Baby? (1929)
SlapstickComedyShort

Horace meets Betty and she agrees to a date. While waiting for her to arrive, a woman asks Horace to mind her baby for a minute. Betty comes along, sees the infant and assumes he's married a... Read allHorace meets Betty and she agrees to a date. While waiting for her to arrive, a woman asks Horace to mind her baby for a minute. Betty comes along, sees the infant and assumes he's married and a father who's being unfaithful. Things go downhill from there.Horace meets Betty and she agrees to a date. While waiting for her to arrive, a woman asks Horace to mind her baby for a minute. Betty comes along, sees the infant and assumes he's married and a father who's being unfaithful. Things go downhill from there.

  • Director
    • Edward Ludwig
  • Writer
    • Edward Ludwig
  • Stars
    • Arthur Lake
    • Gertrude Messinger
    • Glen Cavender
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    31
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    • Director
      • Edward Ludwig
    • Writer
      • Edward Ludwig
    • Stars
      • Arthur Lake
      • Gertrude Messinger
      • Glen Cavender
    • 1User review
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    Arthur Lake
    Arthur Lake
    • Horace
    Gertrude Messinger
    Gertrude Messinger
    • Betty
    Glen Cavender
    Glen Cavender
    • Cop
    Budd Fine
    • Masher
    Fontaine La Rue
    Fontaine La Rue
    • Mother
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Edward Ludwig
    • Writer
      • Edward Ludwig
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    5boblipton

    Left Holding the Baby

    Before he spent twenty years playing a twitchy, warbly-voiced, mildly incompetent Dagwood Bumstead, Arthur Lake spent his youth in the movies playing a twitchy,warbly-voiced, mildly incompetent young man. Earlier, in the silent era, he had to do without the voice, but it was the same character all the way through.

    In this one, an episode in the Universal Studios series called "Horace in Hollywood", Lake dates up Gertrude Messinger. While waiting for her outside a movie theater, he is handed a baby by its mother with a request to mind it while she goes offscreen. Naturally, Gertrude thinks the baby is Lake's. So does Glen Cavender, who seems to be in about forty percent of all short comedies in this period, as a beat cop.

    Most of the humor in this one-reel comedy consists of Lake's comic reactions, which were the same ones he used as Dagwood, He had a real talent for this style of physical comedy, assuming that his audience had not tired of the daddy-is-a-dope trope. Well, as of the writing of this review, they still haven't. So you should find this a competent if uninspired late silent comedy.

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      Universal Pictures production number 4929.
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      Followed by At the Front (1929)

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    • Release date
      • January 28, 1929 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • None
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 10m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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