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Rock-A-Bye Baby (film)

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For the nursery rhyme, see Rock-a-bye Baby.

Rock-A-Bye Baby
theatrical poster
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 andReginald Gardiner.

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 of the Nile." Carla turns to Clayton for help, and he agrees to care for the child once it is born.[edit]Plot

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]

[edit]Cast

Jerry Lewis as Clayton Poole
Marilyn Maxwell as Carla Naples
Connie Stevens as Sandra Naples
Salvatore Baccaloni as Gigi "Papa" Naples
Reginald Gardiner as Harold Hermann
Hans Conried as Mr. Wright
Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Van Cleeve
James Gleason as Doc Simpkins
Ida Moore as Miss Bessie Polk
Hope Emerson as Mrs. Rogers, instructor at child care clinic
Alex Gerry as Judge Jenkins
Mary Treen as Nurse
Judy Franklin as Young Clara Naples
Gary Lewis as Young Clayton

Cast notes:

Two of the original Keystone Kops, Hank Mann and Chester Conklin have bit parts.
Jerry Lewis' son Gary Lewis plays "Clayton Poole" as a boy in a fantasy sequence.^[4]
A picture of comedian Jack Benny was used as a photograph of "Carlos", the Mexican bullfighter that Carla married, and the father of her triplets.^[4]
George Sanders is listed in some cast lists for the film,^[5] but his part was cut out before the movie was released, as was a small part played by Jerry Lewis' father, Danny.^[4]

[edit]Songs and music

The songs in Rock-A-Bye Baby were written by Harry Warren (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics):^[6]^[7]

"Rock-a-Bye Baby" - sung by Jerry Lewis^[8]
"The Land of La-La-La" - sung by Jerry Lewis and Gary Lewis
"Love Is a Lonely Thing" - sung by Jerry Lewis
"Dormi, Dormi, Dormi (Sleep-Sleep-Sleep)" - sung by Salvatore Baccaloni and Jerry Lewis
"Why Can't He Care for Me?" - sung by Connie Stevens
"The White Virgin of the Nile" - sung by Marilyn Maxwell
"Rock My Baby, Rock" - sung by Jerry Lewis

Songs and music notes:

Another song by Warren and Cahn, "Me and My Baby", was written for the film but not used.^[4]
The musical numbers in the film were staged by Nick Castle.^[9]
Because of a musician's strike, Walter Scharf's score had to be recorded in Mexico City in March 1958, and causing union musicians to picket a preview of the film in Los Angeles on 3 June 1958. Some reports maintain that Lewis himself conducted the 100-piece orchestra.^[4]

[edit]Production

Rock-A-Bye Baby was loosely based on Preston Sturges' 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which starred Eddie Bracken andBetty 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]