Bouncing Babies
About Bouncing Babies
Wheezer is jealous of the new baby and gets spanked for wrecking his own breakfast. He runs off with Pete the Pup, meets Farina, and hears a tall tale about trading an unwanted baby for a goat. He wheels a carriage to the hospital, not knowing it holds Mary Ann's doll. A nurse plays along and telephones his mother. At home his mother and Mary Ann pretend the baby is gone. Wheezer prays for the child to come back, and the baby crawls out of hiding and knocks him on the head.
Cast & crew
More about Bouncing Babies
The 92nd Our Gang comedy. Robert F. McGowan directed and produced it with Hal Roach. F. E. Hershey and Art Lloyd photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 12 October 1929.
Themes
Look
F. E. Hershey and Art Lloyd shot the short at the Hal Roach studio.
Preservation
The short survives.
Notes
- It is the last Our Gang short for Jean Darling and Harry Spear.
- Jackie Cooper appears as one of the kids listening to Farina's story.
- Some cast lists add Joe Cobb. He is not in the film.
- Bobby Hutchins plays Wheezer, Allen Hoskins plays Farina, and Mary Ann Jackson plays Mary Ann.
- Dora Dean plays Mrs. Dean, the mother, and Lyle Tayo plays the nurse.
Scenes
- Farina tells Wheezer he once swapped a baby sibling for a goat.
- Wheezer arrives at the hospital with Mary Ann's doll in the carriage.
- The baby crawls out while Wheezer is praying and bumps him on the head.
