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Helen's Babies

192485 minUnited States
Comedy
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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
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89:52
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Synopsis

A bachelor who has written about raising children arrives for a restful family visit and is immediately left in charge of his nieces. His reputation as an expert conceals a complete lack of practical experience. The children's curiosity turns his stay into a succession of emergencies, with help from an attractive neighbour adding another distraction.

Cast

DirectorsWilliam A. Seiter

Inspirations

William A. Seiter's comedy adapts John Habberton's popular nineteenth-century novel. Its central joke places published authority against lived experience, giving the children's behaviour the power to expose the adult's assumptions.

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