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Rock-a-Bye Baby

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6.8/10 • 77

1958-07-231h 43m

Comedy

He's The "Mother" of The Year!

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.

Directors
Frank Tashlin
Editors
Alma Macrorie

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  1. Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis

    Clayton Poole

  2. Marilyn Maxwell

    Marilyn Maxwell

    Carla Naples

  3. Connie Stevens

    Connie Stevens

    Sandra Naples

  4. Salvatore Baccaloni

    Salvatore Baccaloni

    Gigi 'Papa' Naples

  5. Reginald Gardiner

    Reginald Gardiner

    Harold Hermann

  6. Ida Moore

    Ida Moore

    Miss Bessie

  7. Gary Lewis

    Gary Lewis

    Young Clayton

  8. Isobel Elsom

    Isobel Elsom

    Mrs. Van Cleeve

  9. James Gleason

    James Gleason

    Doc Simpkins

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John Chard

Mar 9, 2017

6/10

Lewis and Tashlin Open Up Their Cartoon Book. A loose remake of Preston Sturges' wonderful The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Rock-a-Bye Baby is safe entertainment for the Jerry Lewis fans. Here he plays Clayton Poole, a small town guy whose childhood sweetheart, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell) is now a big film star. When she finds she is pregnant, the problems it will cause her career prompts her to coerce Clayton into looking after what turns out to be triplets! Much prat-falling and high energy chaos ensues. As befitting the Tashlin/Lewis combination, it's all very cartoonish in visual presentation. Narratively outside of Lewis' mad-cap rearing of the babies, there's a running thread of Carla's sister, Sandra (Connie Stevens), being hopelessly in love with Clayton - who of course has no idea, while the sentimental strings are pulled as Clayton fights to not lose the kids to a shifty legal guardian. The musical numbers start to grate on the nerves after a bit, with them feeling like attempts to show off something that isn't there, and the running time is too long to sustain this type of comedy. But once a Lewis fan then always a Lewis fan, with that in mind Rock-a- Bye Baby still has enough fun and frothery to make it above average entertainment. 6.5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
tripletmovie star