Walking My Baby Back Home (film)

Walking My Baby Back Home
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Produced by	Ted Richmond Leonard Goldstein (co-producer)
Written by	Oscar Brodney Don McGuire
Starring	Donald O'Connor Janet Leigh Buddy Hackett
Music by	Henry Mancini (uncredited)
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Production company	Universal-International
Release dates	December 6, 1953
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett.^[1] This was Hackett's film debut.^[2]

Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Janet Leigh plays an aging film star who nostalgically watches the film.

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.^[3]

Cast

• Donald O'Connor as Clarence "Jigger" Miller
• Janet Leigh as Chris Hall
• Buddy Hackett as Blimp Edwards
• Lori Nelson as Claire Millard
• Scatman Crothers as "Smiley" Gordon
• Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Millard
• George Cleveland as Col. Dan Wallace
• John Hubbard as Rodney Millard
• Norman Abbott as Doc
• Phil Garris as Hank
• Walter Kingsford as Uncle Henry Hall
• Sidney Miller as Walter Thomas
• The Modernaires as themselves
• The Sportsmen Quartet as themselves (credited as The Sportsmen)

References

1. "Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)". BFI.
2. "Buddy Hackett - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
3. http://danceviewtimes.com/dvny/features/2003/o'connor.html

External links

• Walking My Baby Back Home at the Internet Movie Database
• Walking My Baby Back Home at the TCM Movie Database
• Walking My Baby Back Home at AllMovie