Rock-a-Bye Baby
He's The "Mother" of The Year!
1958 | 103m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Frank Tashlin |
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| Writer: | Frank Tashlin, Preston Sturges |
| Staring: |
| An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 23, 1958 |
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| Director: | Frank Tashlin |
| Writer: | Frank Tashlin, Preston Sturges |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | triplet, movie star |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures, York Pictures Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jerry Lewis | Clayton Poole |
| Marilyn Maxwell | Carla Naples |
| Connie Stevens | Sandra Naples |
| Salvatore Baccaloni | Gigi 'Papa' Naples |
| Reginald Gardiner | Harold Hermann |
| Ida Moore | Miss Bessie |
| Gary Lewis | Young Clayton |
| Isobel Elsom | Mrs. Van Cleeve |
| James Gleason | Doc Simpkins |
| Hans Conried | Mr. Wright |
| Hope Emerson | Mrs. Rogers |
| Alex Gerry | Judge Jenkins |
| Mary Treen | Nurse |
| Judy Franklin | Young Carla |
| Will Wright | Fire Chief (uncredited) |
| Mary Foran | Miss Menefee (uncredited) |
| Dickie Humphreys | Dancer / Actor (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Walter Scharf | Original Music Composer |
| Haskell B. Boggs | Director of Photography |
| Hal Pereira | Art Direction |
| Tambi Larsen | Art Direction |
| John P. Fulton | Special Effects |
| Robert R. Benton | Set Decoration |
| Rudy Makoul | Dialogue Coach |
| Charles C. Coleman | Assistant Director |
| Alma Macrorie | Editor |
| Nellie Manley | Hair Supervisor |
| Gene Merritt | Sound Recordist |
| Charles Grenzbach | Sound Recordist |
| Jack Mintz | Producer's Assistant |
| Nick Castle | Choreographer |
| Frank Tashlin | Story, Director, Screenplay |
| Sy Devore | Wardrobe Designer |
| Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Preston Sturges | Story |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jerry Lewis | Producer |
| Ernest D. Glucksman | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 4 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trending Position
Lewis and Tashlin Open Up Their Cartoon Book. A loose remake of Preston Sturges' wonderful The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Rock-a-Bye Baby is safe entertainment for the Jerry Lewis fans. Here he plays Clayton Poole, a small town guy whose childhood sweetheart, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell) is now ... a big film star. When she finds she is pregnant, the problems it will cause her career prompts her to coerce Clayton into looking after what turns out to be triplets! Much prat-falling and high energy chaos ensues. As befitting the Tashlin/Lewis combination, it's all very cartoonish in visual presentation. Narratively outside of Lewis' mad-cap rearing of the babies, there's a running thread of Carla's sister, Sandra (Connie Stevens), being hopelessly in love with Clayton - who of course has no idea, while the sentimental strings are pulled as Clayton fights to not lose the kids to a shifty legal guardian. The musical numbers start to grate on the nerves after a bit, with them feeling like attempts to show off something that isn't there, and the running time is too long to sustain this type of comedy. But once a Lewis fan then always a Lewis fan, with that in mind Rock-a- Bye Baby still has enough fun and frothery to make it above average entertainment. 6.5/10