Babe Comes Home is a 1927 American silent sports comedy film produced and distributed through First National and directed by Ted Wilde. The film is a baseball-styled sports film centering on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson and was based on the short story "Said With Soap" by Gerald Beaumont.
The film was released in the short-lived Vocafilm sound-on-film process, presumably a music and effects soundtrack but with no dialogue. Babe Comes Home is considered to be a lost film.
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Synopsis
Babe Dugan, star player of the Angel baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any other player. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes concerned over his untidiness; Babe calls to apologize for unintentionally striking her with a ball during a game. Babe's pal, Peewee, falls in love with Vernie's friend, Georgia. On an outing to an amusement park, a roller coaster throws Vernie into Babe's arms; soon they are engaged, and Vernie plans to reform him. Scores of tobacco cubes and spittoons are pre-wedding gifts, and they precipitate a lovers' quarrel. But Babe takes the reform idea seriously, though his game slumps and he is put on the bench. At a crucial moment, Vernie relents and throws him a plug of tobacco; and consequently he delivers a four-base blow.
Cast
Babe Ruth as 'Babe' Dugan
Anna Q. Nilsson as Vernie
Ethel Shannon as Georgia
Louise Fazenda as laundry girl
Arthur Stone as the laundry driver
Lou Archer as Peewee
Tom McGuire as Angels team manager
Mickey Bennett as mascot
James Bradbury Jr. as ball player (as James Bradbury)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as a baseball player
James Gordon as a baseball player
Ralf Harolde as Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Helen Parrish as Babe Dugan's daughter
Production note
Filming of the baseball scenes took place at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles during February 1927. Ruth and his trainer Artie McGovern used the occasion to put Ruth in condition before the upcoming Yankees spring training schedule.[Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1927, p. 74]