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Rock-a-Bye Baby is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Frank Tashlin released in USA on 23 july 1958 with Jerry Lewis
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
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Add to a movie listRock-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 and Reginald Gardiner.
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Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a small-town TV repairman whose former sweetheart, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), is now a famous movie star. Carla marries a Mexican bullfighter and becomes pregnant; her husband dies the day after the wedding. Her agent, Harold Herman (Reginald Gardiner) tries to avoid a scandal by sending Carla back to the town where she grew up. The cover story is that she is going into seclusion to prepare for her next role, the lead in the religious epic The White Virgin of the Nile. Carla turns to Clayton for help, and he agrees to care for the child once it is born.Actors
Jerry Lewis
(Clayton Poole)
Marilyn Maxwell
(Carla Naples)
Connie Stevens
(Sandra Naples)
Reginald Gardiner
(Harold Hermann)
Hans Conried
(Mr. Wright)
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