My Baby
About My Baby
Two daughters leave an old man in one double wedding. The youngest, played by Mary Pickford, swears she will stay, then marries anyway. Her husband, Henry B. Walthall, wants a house of their own. The father, in anger, refuses them his home. Years later he meets a baby at the gate, learns whose child it is, and goes looking for another sight of it. The Moving Picture World synopsis ends on that reunion.
Cast & crew
More about My Baby
Anita Loos wrote the scenario. D. W. Griffith and Frank Powell directed. The General Film Company released the one-reeler on 14 November 1912. G. W. Bitzer photographed it.
Themes
Background
Biograph one-reelers in 1912 were still sold through the General Film Company to nickelodeons and small theaters.
Making
Loos was then selling short scenarios to Griffith's Biograph unit. Frank Powell is credited with Griffith as co-director.
Look
G. W. Bitzer shot the one-reeler for Biograph.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Prints are in the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.
Notes
- W. Chrystie Miller plays the grandfather and Eldean Stuart the baby.
- Alfred Paget is the married sister's husband and Madge Kirby a friend of the wife.
- Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Jack Pickford, Elmer Booth, and Walter Miller are among the wedding guests and people at table.
- Wikipedia files the short as a comedy. The Biograph synopsis printed by Moving Picture World is a family story.
- It is one of Pickford's last Biograph releases.
Scenes
- Two daughters are married off in one ceremony.
- The father turns his youngest daughter and her husband out of the house.
- He finds a baby at the gate and learns it is his grandchild.
Also available
- Museum of Modern Art
- Library of Congress
