Say It with Babies
About Say It with Babies
Casper Crum is the baby man in a department store. A mother leaves him a baby to adopt, and he parks it with the newlyweds next door. On Sunday the households go on a picnic. Casper is stung by bees and ticketed for speeding. They think the baby has swallowed the car key, so he has to push the car to a trolley line. The key turns up. The car then sinks in a mud puddle while Casper and his wife keep fighting on the roof.
Cast & crew
More about Say It with Babies
Fred Guiol directed this Hal Roach two-reeler for Pathé Exchange. Hal Yates, James Parrott, Carl Harbaugh, and Grover Jones wrote the scenario. H. M. Walker did the titles. F. Richard Jones was supervising director and Jean Yarbrough assistant director. Richard C. Currier edited. It is production H-6. Filming ran from 21 January to 16 February 1926, with retakes on 21 February and 22 March. Pathé released it on 16 May 1926. Copyright followed on 17 May.
Themes
Look
Len Powers photographed the short between 21 January and 16 February 1926, with retakes on 21 February and 22 March.
Preservation
A print exists. One circulating copy runs 12 minutes 16 seconds. Silent Era lists the film as public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, plays the floorwalker Arlington Kimmel. Martha Sleeper plays Mrs. Kimmel.
- Eva Novak plays Casper's wife in the Silent Era cast list. Vivien Oakland is also billed in some credits.
- Fred Kelsey plays the boss. Jackie Hanes, billed as Jackie "Husky" Hanes, plays the waif.
- A surviving copy runs 12 minutes 16 seconds, shorter than the two-reel release.
- Silent Era lists the film as public domain in the United States and says a print exists.
Scenes
- A mother leaves Casper a baby and he hands it to the neighbors.
- They decide the baby has swallowed the ignition key.
- The car sinks in mud while Casper and his wife argue on the roof.
