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She’s My Baby

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The bachelor Bob Martin ( Jack Whiting) wants to borrow a great deal of money from his rich uncle (Frank Doane) so that he can finance a musical starring his girlfriend Polly (Irene Dunne). He knows that his free-and-easy life style will not impress the old man, so Martin convinces his maid Tilly (Beatrice Lillie) to pose as his wife and the twosome “borrow” the neighbor’s baby to present to the uncle a picture of do…

Opened
1928
Performances
71
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Lorenz HartBook: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby

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In the literature10 passages

Both of Youmans’ future wives, incidentally, were in the OH, PLEASE! chorus. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p171

'Morning Is Midnight’—also used in SHE’S MY BABY [January 3, 1928]' and '“A Tiny Flat Near Soho Square”—see SHE’S MY BABY','confidence': 1.0},{ book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p190

Another British hit, memorable for establishing Jessie Matthews as a star. Matthews introduced the soon-to-be-imported “My Heart Stood Still,” inspired by the near-collision of a Paris taxicab containing Rodgers and Hart. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p193

Rodgers and Hart eventually did come up with a Lillie gem: “Rhythm” (in the British revue PLEASE! [November 16, 1933]), which seems to have been revised from un- used SHE’S MY BABY material. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p195

“Why Do You Suppose?”—new lyric for “How Was I To Know” (cut) from SHE’S MY BABY [January 3, 1928] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p198

(see SHE’S MY BABY [Jan-uary 3, 1928]) book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p201

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