That's My Baby!
About That's My Baby!
Phineas Moody, head of Moody Comics, is in bad health. His daughter Betty (Ellen Drew) brings in two doctors, who find he has not laughed in decades. Betty and Tim Jones (Richard Arlen), the comic artist she plans to marry, fill the Moody house with vaudeville acts. The acts do not work. They then track down Phineas's estranged wife Hettie (Madeline Grey), whom Betty has not seen since childhood. The film ends with an animated cartoon screened for Phineas and Hettie.
Cast & crew
More about That's My Baby!
William Berke directed for Republic Pictures. Walter Colmes produced, with Dave Fleischer as associate producer. Irving Wallace supplied the story. Nicholas T. Barrows and William Tunberg wrote the script. Robert Jahns edited.
Themes
Making
Republic released a comedy built around a comics publisher and a string of specialty acts, with Dave Fleischer as associate producer and an animated cartoon at the finish.
Look
Robert Pittack photographed the live-action comedy, which ends on a filmed cartoon.
Music
Jay Chernis is credited with the music. On screen, Mike Riley, Freddie Fisher, and Chuy Reyes appear with their bands.
Preservation
Prints are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Minor Watson plays Phineas Moody. Leonid Kinskey plays Doctor Svatsky and Richard Bailey plays Hilton Payne.
- Acts appearing as themselves include Mike Riley and His Musical Maniacs, Freddie Fisher and His Schnikelfritz Orchestra, Chuy Reyes and His Orchestra, and Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham as the butler Pigmeat.
- Lita Baron appears as Isabelita. Gene Rodgers plays boogie-woogie piano.
- Dave Fleischer, no longer at the studio that bore his name, is the associate producer.
- Jay Chernis wrote the music. Robert Pittack photographed it.
- A print is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Doctors tell Betty that her father has not laughed in decades.
- The Moody mansion fills with bands and novelty acts, and none of them move Phineas.
- An animated cartoon is run for Phineas and Hettie.
Also available
- Internet Archive (thats_my_baby)
- Wikimedia Commons (That's My Baby! (1944).webm)
