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Pretty Baby is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Bretaigne Windust released in USA on 16 september 1950 with Dennis Morgan
Pretty Baby (1950)
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Add to a movie listPretty Baby is a 1950 American comedy film starring Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott and Edmund Gwenn. A young woman's little white lie leads to unforeseen complications. Cary Grant aggressively promoted Betsy Drake, his wife, to Jack L. Warner for the lead in Pretty Baby.
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Patsy Douglas (Betsy Drake) comes up with an ingenious way to get a seat on the crowded New York subway: she pretends to have a baby, using a doll discarded by the advertising agency where she works. One day, however, her agency's primary client, short-tempered Cyrus Baxter (Edmund Gwenn), happens to be seated beside her. (His chauffeur had abruptly quit after Baxter berated him for getting stuck in a traffic jam.) He is delighted when he overhears that she named her "child" Cyrus after him. He becomes acquainted with her, letting her assume that he works for Baxter as a watchman.Actors
Dennis Morgan
(Sam Morley)
Betsy Drake
(Patsy Douglas)
Zachary Scott
(Barry Holmes)
Edmund Gwenn
(Cyrus Baxter)
William Frawley
(Corcoran)
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