When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
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Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he becomes an alcoholic, loses his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward. Grable divorces Dailey to marry rancher Richard Arlen, but Dailey's old pal Jack Oakie tries to rehabilitate the fallen star. Oakie's mission seems hopeless until Grable rejoins the act, and everything is patched up...at least professionally. If the plot of When My Baby Smiles at Me seems familiar, perhaps you've seen the previous two versions of the George Manker Watters/Arthur Hopkins play Burlesque: The Dance of Life (1929) and Swing High, Swing Low. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, (more)
- Director(s):
- Adrian Brunel, Walter Lang, (more)
Synopsis of When My Baby Smiles at Me
Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he becomes an alcoholic, loses his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward. Grable divorces Dailey to marry rancher Richard Arlen, but Dailey's old pal Jack Oakie tries to rehabilitate the fallen star. Oakie's mission seems hopeless until Grable rejoins the act, and everything is patched up...at least professionally. If the plot of When My Baby Smiles at Me seems familiar, perhaps you've seen the previous two versions of the George Manker Watters/Arthur Hopkins play Burlesque: The Dance of Life (1929) and Swing High, Swing Low. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of When My Baby Smiles at Me
- Betty Grable - Bonny
- Jack Oakie - Bozo
- Richard Arlen - Harvey
- Vanita Wade - Bubbles
- Pati Behrs - Woman in Box
- Jerry Maren - Midget
- Sam Bernard - Process Server
- Frank Scannell - Vendor
- Tim Graham - Painter
- Charles La Torre - Tony
- Lela Bliss - Woman
- Robert Karnes - Attendant
- Robert Patten - Sailor
- Noel Neill - Specialty Dancer
- Annie Jones - Specialty Dancer
- Harry Carter - Man in Box
- John Farrell MacDonald - Doorman
- Charles Tannen - Intern
- Dan Dailey - "Skid" Johnson
- June Havoc - Gussie
- James Gleason - Lefty
- Jean Wallace - Sylvia Marco
- Robert Emmett Keane - Sam Harris
- Tom Stevenson - Valet
- Mauritz Hugo - Stage Manager
- Dave Morris - Painter
- Kit Guard - Man
- Hank Mann - Man
- Tiny Timbrell - Musician
- Edward Clark - Box-Office Man
- Harry Seymour - Trouper
- George Lewis - Comic
- Marion Marshall - Girl
- Lee MacGregor - Call Boy
- Ted Jordan - Sailor
- Director(s):
- Walter Lang, Adrian Brunel
- Writer(s):
- Heinrich Fraenkel, Lamar Trotti, A.R. Rawlinson
- Producer(s):
- George Jessel
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