Baby Brother

Baby Brother

20 mins | Comedy | June 26, 1927

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.

Baby Brother

20 mins | Comedy | June 26, 1927

Baby Brother
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
Producers Hal Roach Studios
Original title Baby Brother
Directors Charles Oelze, Robert A. McGowan
Writers Hal Roach

Cast

Joe Cobb

as Joe

Jackie Condon

as Jackie

Jean Darling

as Jean

Jannie Hoskins

as Mango

Scooter Lowry

as Scooter

Harry Earles

as Gus, one of Barr's midgets

Anita Garvin

as Amorous nursemaid

Ben Hall

as Man with glasses

Oliver Hardy

as Ice Man

Mildred Kornman

as Jackie's sister

Jay R. Smith

as Jay

Richard Smith

as Coolidge

Robert Smith

as Tunney

Lyle Tayo

as Party guest

S.D. Wilcox

as Officer

Clifton Young

as Bonedust

Dave Monahan

as Kid

Symona Boniface

as Party guest

Ed Brandenburg

as Shoeshine Worker