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BUTCH MINDS THE BABY (1942)

Film Pick of the Day
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Reformed safecracker Aloyisius "Butch" Grogan (Broderick Crawford) regularly babysits the infant son of widow Susie O'Neill (Virginia Bruce). When his former cronies come to him with a payroll job, Butch signs on because he is the only one experienced to handle the nitroglycerin needed to blow the safe... and then realizes that it's on the same night that he babysits. He can't find a substitute sitter, and decides that the only thing he can do is take the baby with him. Complicating matters are Susie's suspicious policeman boyfriend (Dick Foran), and a curious baby with an attraction to nitroglycerin.

Shemp costars as one of the safecrackers, a myopic gangster, similar to his Gunner character in AFRICA SCREAMS (1949).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 9.00/10 ]   4 votes
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Release Date Friday, March 20, 1942
Studio Universal
Production Type Feature Film
Duration 76 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - August 9th


Births

Alice Fleming
(Actress)
b. 1882

Brooklyn, NY

Charles Clague
(Art Director)
b. 1890

Isle of Man, UK

Kathleen Lockhart
(Actress)
b. 1894

Southsea, England

Nat Pendleton
(Actor)
b. 1895

Davenport, IA

Paul Kelly
(Actor)
b. 1899

Brooklyn, NY

Charles Farrell
(Actor)
b. 1901

Onset Bay, MA

Tom Tyler
(Actor)
b. 1903

Port Henry, NY

Mary Currier
(Actress)
b. 1904

Racine, WI

Hugh Prince
(Actor)
b. 1906

Greenville, SC

Robert Aldrich
(Producer)
b. 1918

Cranston, RI

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
(Actor)
b. 1920

Boston, MA

Robert Radnitz
(Actor)
b. 1924

Great Neck, Long Island, NY


Deaths

Harry A. Bailey
(Actor)
d. 1954   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Richard Cramer
(Actor)
d. 1960   (71)

Los Angeles, CA

Creighton Hale
(Actor)
d. 1965   (83)

South Pasadena, CA

Pat Moran
(Actor)
d. 1965   (64)

Woodland Hills, CA

Jess Kirkpatrick
(Actor)
d. 1976   (78)

LaJolla, CA

Mina Cunard
(Actress)
d. 1978   (83)

Woodland Hills, CA

Jimmie Fidler
(Actor)
d. 1988   (87)

Richard Alexander
(Actor)
d. 1989   (86)

Woodland Hills, CA

Dorothy Appleby
(Actress)
d. 1990   (84)

Hicksville, NY

Lewis Wilson
(Actor)
d. 2000   (80)

San Francisco, CA

Arthur Seid
(Film Editor)
d. 2001   (87)

Santa Monica, CA

Gene LeBell
(Actor)
d. 2022   (89)

Sherman Oaks, CA


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