Broadway Limited ~ 1941 -BW

QUICKIE: It's a game of "hot potato" played with a baby instead of a 'tater!

PLOT: (from IMDB): As a ploy to gain publicity, a motion picture director (Leonid Kinskey) wants his star actress (Marjorie Woodworth) to take a baby with her on a train trip. The director's secretary (Patsy Kelly) asks the train's engineer (Victor McLaglen), an old boyfriend, for help. As the engineer ponders what to do, a stranger in the train station tells him that he has a baby that could be used. On board the train, the actress meets a young doctor (Dennis O'Keefe) whom she knew in school, and whom she is still in love with. The presence of the baby causes a series of misunderstandings between them, but the real problems begin when the engineer begins to suspect that the baby may have been kidnapped.

SUMMARY: OMG, is this stupidly enjoyable. We have the beautiful blonde starlet, an adorable baby, the handsome Dr. love interest, a bunch of kooky supporting people, all traveling on an express train. Misunderstandings abound and nobody wants the baby until everybody wants the baby. It's supposedly a kidnapped baby from a very famous rich family, which, it turns out not to be in the end, of course. But the mix ups in between are pretty entertaining. The ending is our typical feel-good ending with everyone running off to get married and the baby ending up with it's parents again. Awww.

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