Baby Mine (1917 film)

Baby Mine is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by both John S. Robertson and Hugo Ballin and starring Madge Kennedy. The picture marked Kennedys screen debut and was one of the first films produced by Samuel Goldwyn as an independent after founding his own studio.

As described in a film magazine, Alfred Morgan catches his wife Zoie Kennedy in so many lies that he leaves home and establishes an office in Boston. He is very fond of children so Zoie and Jimmies wife Aggie Adams conspire to tell him that an heir has arrived, with Zoie planning on adopting a baby. Before arrangements have been completed for the babys adoption, Alfred arrives home, necessitating the stealing of a child from a foundling home. The mother of the baby, however, sets up such a rumpus that they decide to return it and borrow the washerwomans newborn babe, one of a set of twins. More complications result when Jimmie Cumberland comes in with the other twin, followed by the washerwomans husband demanding his children back. While the three babies are being cooed over by Alfred, who believes he is the father of triplets, the respective parents arrive and claim their children.Like many American films of the time, Baby Mine was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut a closeup of money. ........

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