When My Baby Smiles at Me (film)
When My Baby Smiles at Me | |
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20th Century Fox | |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3.4 million (US rentals)[2] |
When My Baby Smiles at Me is a 1948 American
Dan Dailey received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance, but lost to Laurence Olivier for Hamlet.
Plot
Bonny Kane and "Skid" Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway, while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem, and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
Cast
- Betty Grable as Bonny Kane
- Dan Dailey as "Skid" Johnson
- Jack Oakie as Bozo Evans
- June Havoc as Gussie Evans
- Richard Arlen as Harvey Howell
- James Gleason as Lefty Moore
Reception
When My Baby Smiles at Me was
Dailey received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in this film, while Grable did not. In fact many thought she should have at least received an Oscar nomination for Mother Wore Tights.
Adaptations
When My Baby Smiles at Me was presented on Screen Directors Playhouse May 5, 1950, with Grable reprising her role from the motion picture.[5]
The film was parodied as "When My Baby Laughs at Me", on The Carol Burnett Show (1975 - Episode 8.18), with Carol Burnett as "Bunny" (Bonnie), Rock Hudson as "Skip" (Skid), and Vicki Lawrence as "Gussie".
It was also referenced in commercials for Peter Paul's No Jelly candy bar (1972).
References
- ^ When My Baby Smiles at Me at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
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- ^ "Those Were the Days". Nostalgia Digest. 38 (3): 32–39. Summer 2012.