Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man inherits a band from his late uncle and tries to make it as a musician. He falls for a woman who gets drawn into performing with him.

lightheartednostalgicplayfulupbeatbreezyromanticcheerfulold-fashioned

What happens

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. It was Hackett's film debut and the screenplay of the movie included a contribution by the notorious and controversial comedian Lenny Bruce. Excerpts of the film are used in the 1975 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 the composer of the Columbo theme music as well. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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