Walking My Baby Back Home (film)

Walking My Baby Back Home
Walking My Baby Back Home
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	Oscar Brodney; Don McGuire
Produced by	Ted Richmond; Leonard Goldstein
Starring	Donald O'Connor; Janet Leigh; Buddy Hackett
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Edited by	Ted J. Kent
Music by	Henry Mancini (uncredited)
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 6, 1953;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett.^[1] It was Hackett's film debut.^[2]

Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays a middle aged former film star Grace Wheeler who nostalgically watches the film.

Donald O'Connor enjoyed working with Janet Leigh.

She hadn't danced in years but was a real trouper. Nine times out of 10 we'd do all those beautiful dance routines on cement, and she got very tired, started falling a lot on her knees. And her knees started to swell three times their normal size. It was very painful. On the screen you can't tell how she was suffering in that darn thing.^[3]

Plot[]

A World War II veteran joins a minstrel show and falls in love with the daughter of the troupe's patriarch.

Cast[]

Donald O'Connor as Clarence "Jigger" Miller
Janet Leigh as Chris Hall
Buddy Hackett as Blimp Edwards
Lori Nelson as Claire Millard
Scatman Crothers as "Smiley" Gordon
Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Millard
George Cleveland as Col. Dan Wallace
John Hubbard as Rodney Millard
Norman Abbott as Doc
Phil Garris as Hank
Walter Kingsford as Uncle Henry Hall
Sidney Miller as Walter Thomas
The Modernaires as themselves
The Sportsmen Quartet as themselves (credited as The Sportsmen)

References[]

^ "Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13.
^ "Buddy Hackett - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ Mindy Aloff (October 7, 2003). "Remembering a Hoofer, Donald O'Connor interview". Danceviewtimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.

External links[]

Walking My Baby Back Home at IMDb
Walking My Baby Back Home at the TCM Movie Database
Walking My Baby Back Home at AllMovie
Walking My Baby Back Home at the British Film Institute

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[1] "Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13.

[2] "Buddy Hackett - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.

[3] Mindy Aloff (October 7, 2003). "Remembering a Hoofer, Donald O'Connor interview". Danceviewtimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.

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