| Rock-A-Bye Baby | |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Produced by | Jerry Lewis Ernest D. Glucksman (associate) |
| Written by | Preston Sturges (previous screenplay) Frank Tashlin |
| Starring | Jerry Lewis Marilyn Maxwell Connie Stevens |
| Music by | Harry Warren (songs - music) Sammy Cahn (songs - lyrics) Walter Scharf (score) |
| Cinematography | Haskell B. Boggs |
| Editing by | Alma Macrorie |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 16 July 1958 (L.A.) 23 July (NYC) |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rock-A-Bye Baby is a 1958 comedy film with songs, starring Jerry Lewis. A loose remake of Preston Sturges' 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the film was directed and written by Frank Tashlin, and features Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens and Reginald Gardiner.
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Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a small-town TV repairman whose former sweetheart, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), is now a famous movie star. When Carla marries a Mexican bullfighter, who dies the day after the wedding, she becomes pregnant. Her agent, Harold Herman (Reginald Gardiner) tries to avoid a scandal and damage to her career by sending Carla back to the town she grew up in, telling the world that she is going into seclusion to prepare for her next role, the lead in a religious epic called "The White Virgin on the Nile." Carla turns to Clayton for help, and he agrees to care for the child once it is born.
But Carla gives birth to triplets, and Clayton finds out that he has to be married before he can adopt them, so he marries Carla's younger sister, Sandy (Connie Stevens), who is in love with him. The press finds out about the triplets, and Carla tells them that she and Clayton are secretly married. Now suspected of bigamy, Clayton goes into hiding with the triplets until everything is cleared up.
Nine months later, Sandy gives birth to quintuplets, and soon a statue of Clayton and his five babies is erected in front of the town courthouse.[1][2][3]
Cast notes:
The songs in Rock-A-Bye Baby were written by Harry Warren (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics):[6][7]
Songs and music notes:
Rock-A-Bye Baby was loosely based on Preston Sturges' 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which starred Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and because of this Sturges received a writer's credit on the film, although he did not actually work on the project.
Rock-a-Bye Baby was filmed from 18 November 1957 through 8 January 1958,[10] and opened in Los Angeles on 16 July 1958, followed by a premiere in New York City on 23 July. It went in general release shortly afterwords.[11] The film was re-released in 1962 on a double bill with another Jerry Lewis film, Don't Give Up The Ship.[4]
The film will be released on DVD on February 14, 2012.[12]
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