Rock-a-Bye Baby
An ordinary television repairman is tasked with caring for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a celebrated movie star— to safeguard her career from any potential fallout.
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Frank Tashlin
Charles C. Coleman
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John Chard
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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The directors of Rock-a-Bye Baby are Frank Tashlin and Charles C. Coleman.
The cast of Rock-a-Bye Baby includes Jerry Lewis as Clayton Poole, Will Wright as Fire Chief (uncredited), Hans Conried as Mr. Wright, Jack Benny as Carlos, the matador (uncredited), James Gleason as Doc Simpkins, Ida Moore as Miss Bessie, Mary Foran as Miss Menefee (uncredited), Mary Treen as Nurse, Connie Stevens as Sandra Naples, Reginald Gardiner as Harold Hermann, Marilyn Maxwell as Carla Naples, Alex Gerry as Judge Jenkins, and more.
The duration of Rock-a-Bye Baby is 1h 43 mins.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby was released on 23 Jul 1958.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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..."
