Series: Glenn Tryon Director: James W. Horne Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Robert Doran Editor: Richard C. Currier Stars: Glenn Tryon, Blanche Mehaffey, Jackie Hanes, Al Hallett Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 26 April 1925 Length: 2 reels Production No.: G-6 Filming dates: December 27, 1924 - January 15, 1925 Rating: 4/10

Hold My Baby!

Glenn Tryon is the author of a successful book called "The Care Of Babies". Whilst riding an overnight train he receives a telegram from his publishers informing him that due to good sales of the book a second instalment is required from him. When the train stops at a station a desperate woman pushes a baby onto the train through an open window, accompanied with a note asking the finder to look after 'Malcolm' due to her poor circumstances. The author gets lumbered with the kid as the rest of the passengers get increasingly fed up with it crying the whole time.

Favourite bit The scene where Glenn Tryon helps himself to a piece of Helen Gilmore's arse!

Trivia • Copyrighted April 2, 1925. • At least one other source lists the film with the title "Whose Baby Are You?" • One of the final scenes is a bit controversial: Glenn Tryon dons an item of clothing on his head which resembles a KKK mask. He then points at the train porter, who is black. This is followed by a group of black men all jumping off the moving train. My opinion • In the theatres I cannot picture any viewers laughing whilst watching this. Yawning, maybe? It's a pretty basic plot, little imagination, a lead actress that does nothing and although Glenn Tryon does his best the film just plods along with an annoying baby, passengers who over-react and oh, it's just tedious. Helen Gilmore offers the slightest bit of unintentional humour with some of those faces she pulls, but apart from that this one stinks worse than the baby's diaper.

	Glenn Tryon Marion Snow, the author
	Blanche Mehaffey The girl
	Jackie Hanes Malcolm, the baby
	Al Hallett Train conductor
	Sammy Brooks Train passenger
	Jack Gavin Train passenger
	Patsy O'Byrne Train passenger
	Dick Gilbert Train passenger
	Helen Gilmore Train passenger
	Robert Page Train passenger
	Ed Porter Train passenger
	Floyd Shackelford Train porter

UNIDENTIFIED CAST

CREDITS (click image to enlarge)	INTERTITLES (click image to enlarge)

SHOT ON LOCATION (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: Jesse Brisson (identification of Floyd Shackelford, Patsy O'Byrne, Robert Page) This page was last updated on: 26 April 2023