Walking_My_Baby_Back_Home_(film)

<i>Walking My Baby Back Home</i> (film)

Walking My Baby Back Home (film)

1953 film

Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett.[2] It was Hackett's film debut.[3]

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Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays a middle aged former film star Grace Wheeler who nostalgically watches the film; Walking My Baby Back Home music composer Henry Mancini was also the composer of the Columbo theme music as well.[4]

Donald O'Connor enjoyed working with Janet Leigh.

She hadn't danced in years but was a real trouper. Nine times out of 10 we'd do all those beautiful dance routines on cement, and she got very tired, started falling a lot on her knees. And her knees started to swell three times their normal size. It was very painful. On the screen you can't tell how she was suffering in that darn thing.[5]

Plot

A World War II veteran joins a minstrel show and falls in love with the daughter of the troupe's patriarch.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada
  2. [2]
    "Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13.
  3. [3]
    "Buddy Hackett - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  4. [4]
    Vincentelli, Elizabeth (July 24, 2020). "Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love 'Columbo'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  5. [5]
    Mindy Aloff (October 7, 2003). "Remembering a Hoofer, Donald O'Connor interview". Danceviewtimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.


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