Nobody’s Baby

Predictable situations occur when two nurses (Patsy Kelly, Lyda Roberti) take turns watching the baby of a secretly married dancer (Rosina Lawrence). Scoops: Robert Armstrong. Littleworth: Lynne Overman. Cortez: Don Alvarado. Agreeable. Gus Meins directed., Three former stalwarts of producer Hal Roach’s two-reel comedies, actresses Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti and director Gus Meins, combine their talents in the Roach feature film Nobody’s Baby. Kelly and Roberti play nurses-in-training Kitty and Lena, who reluctantly come into possession of a cute baby. The kid’s mother, nightclub dancer Yvonne (Rosina Lawrence), doesn’t want her public to know that she’s married to her partner Cortez (Don Alvarado), so she prevails upon our heroines to take care of the baby “temporarily.” Naturally, the presence of a squawling infant in the apartment of two bachelor girls results in all sorts of gossip and innuendo — and this being a Hal Roach picture, situation comedy gives way to farce, gives way to slapstick. Sadly, Nobody’s Baby was among the last of Lyda Roberti’s screen appearances: she died the following year of an acute heart condition at the age of 29.