Rock-a-Bye Baby

"He's The "Mother" of The Year!"

1958 1h 43m EN

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6.9

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63%

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6.6

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★6.9TMDB · 83🍅63%Rotten Tomatoes★6.6IMDB · 2,561

Comedy

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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.

“He's The "Mother" of The Year!”

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Cast

Jerry Lewis
Clayton Poole
Marilyn Maxwell
Carla Naples
Connie Stevens
Sandra Naples
Salvatore Baccaloni
Gigi 'Papa' Naples
Reginald Gardiner
Harold Hermann
Ida Moore
Miss Bessie
Gary Lewis
Young Clayton
Isobel Elsom
Mrs. Van Cleeve

Credits

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Director: Frank Tashlin
Writers: Frank Tashlin, Frank Tashlin, Preston Sturges
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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68 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Frank Tashlin, shot by Haskell B. Boggs. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Walter Scharf. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Alma Macrorie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Jerry Lewis and Marilyn Maxwell and Connie Stevens carry the top of the cast.

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ERA

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Marketing tagline: "He's The "Mother" of The Year!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0052141 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 83 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Frank Tashlin directs. Haskell B. Boggs behind the camera. Walter Scharf scores. Alma Macrorie cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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168 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Frank Tashlin, shot by Haskell B. Boggs. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Walter Scharf. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Alma Macrorie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Jerry Lewis and Marilyn Maxwell and Connie Stevens carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "He's The "Mother" of The Year!".
7IMDB entry: tt0052141 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 83 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Haskell B. Boggs
Original score: Walter Scharf
Editing: Alma Macrorie
Costume design: Edith Head
Makeup / hair: Wally Westmore
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes: 63% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 2,561 votes
MPAA: Approved

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John Chard2017-03-09
★ 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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