Hold That Baby!

Hold That Baby!(1949)

06/06/1949 (US)Comedy1h 4m

5.0

"LOOK WHO'S BABY-SITTING! Leo's playing "Mother" to a missing heir worth millions!"

Overview

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.

Charles R. Marion

Screenplay

Reginald Le Borg

Director

Gerald Schnitzer

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey

Slip Mahoney

Huntz Hall

Huntz Hall

Sach Jones

Gabriel Dell

Gabriel Dell

Gabe Moreno

Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

Bananas Stewart

Anabel Shaw

Anabel Shaw

Laura Andrews

John Kellogg

John Kellogg

Mason

Edward Gargan

Edward Gargan

Policeman Burton

William Benedict

William Benedict

Whitey

Bernard Gorcey

Bernard Gorcey

Louie

Benny Bartlett

Benny Bartlett

Butch

David Gorcey

David Gorcey

Chuck

Ida Moore

Ida Moore

Faith Andrews

Florence Auer

Florence Auer

Hope Andrews

Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

John Winston

Torben Meyer

Torben Meyer

Hans Heinrich

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Part of the The Bowery Boys Collection

From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the Broadway hit "Dead End", Hollywood soon followed with William Wyler taking the troupe in toto for 1937's film version. Personifying the grit and heart of the kid gangs sprouting up in city slums, these little wise guys quickly stole the nation's heart. Ably anchored by the central pair of Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, the kids moved from "preachment" and crime pictures to straight up comedy as The Bowery Boys - and the rest is history as the boys capered through scores of pictures for over two decades!

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