Hold That Baby! is a 1949 comedy film

Comedy film

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 starring The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958....

. The film was released on June 26, 1949 by Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures

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 and is the fourteenth film in the series.

Plot

The boys are running a laundromat in the back room of Louie's Sweet Shop. A woman, Laura Andrews, comes in and leaves her baby in one of the laundry baskets and the boys find him. The discover that he is the heir to a fortune, and that his mother hid him so that her aunts couldn't steal the inheritance. After discovering the baby is missing, the aunts have Laura committed.

Meanwhile a bunch of gangsters get wind of the situation and make a deal with the aunts to keep the baby away from the reading of the will. Sach and Slip sneak into the mental ward and help Laura escape. They make it to the reading of the will just in time and Laura and her son gain the inheritance and the aunts are arrested, along with the gangsters.

The Bowery Boys

• Leo Gorcey
  Leo Gorcey
  Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo...
  
   as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
• Huntz Hall
  Huntz Hall
  Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the "Dead End Kids" movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces , which gave way to the "The Bowery Boys" movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in...
  
   as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
• William Benedict
  William Benedict
  William Benedict was an American actor. Born in Haskell, Oklahoma, he took part in school theatricals, and on leaving school he made his way to Hollywood. His first film was $10 Raise starring Edward Everett Horton, which launched Benedict on a busy career...
  
   as Whitey
• David Gorcey
  David Gorcey
  David Gorcey was an American actor and comedian best known as being a member of the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. He was the younger brother of Dead End Kids member Leo Gorcey.-Career:...
  
   as Chuck
• Bennie Bartlett as Butch

Remaining cast

• Gabriel Dell
  Gabriel Dell
  Gabriel Dell was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/The Bowery Boys.-Early life:...
  
   as Gabe Moreno
• Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
• Frankie Darro
  Frankie Darro
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   as Bananas
• Anabel Shaw as Laura Andrews
• John Kellogg
  John Kellogg (actor)
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   as Cherry Nose Gray
• Ida Moore as Faith Andrews