A Bedtime Story

A Bedtime Story
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNorman Taurog
Written byBenjamin Glazer
Roy Horniman (novel Bellamy The Magnificent)
Nunnally Johnson
Waldemar Young (screenplay)
Produced byErnest Cohen
StarringMaurice Chevalier
Helen Twelvetrees
Edward Everett Horton
CinematographyCharles Lang
Edited byOtho Lovering
Music byKarl Hajos (uncredited)
John Leipold (uncredited)
Ralph Rainger (uncredited)
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • April 1933 (1933-04)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish/French

A Bedtime Story is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Maurice Chevalier. The film was directed by Norman Taurog and also stars Edward Everett Horton, Helen Twelvetrees, and Baby LeRoy (in his film debut, as the baby).

Plot

Chevalier plays a Parisian playboy who finds himself obliged to care for an abandoned baby.

Cast

Production problem

The film was notable for the performance of Baby LeRoy, a one-year-old who had been selected from an orphanage by Chevalier and Taurog for his charming appeal. When certain scenes needed to be re-shot, they found that the baby had grown two front teeth, even though the later scenes would be showing the bare gums. There was no way round this.[1]

Release

The film opened in the week ended April 22, 1933 in Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, with grosses totalling $90,900 for the week.[2]

References

  1. ^ With Love, the Autobiography of Maurice Chevalier (Cassell, 1960), p. 325.
  2. ^ "Theatre Receipts". Motion Picture Herald. April 29, 1933. pp. 32–33. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.


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