Review of Helen's Babies

Yes it's a vote whether this was a baby Peggy film or a Edward Everette film feature,then there's Clara bow.Edward was just as old looking back in 1924 as he would be later in the talking era.Clara Bow,who plays next door teenager Alice,looks different than she would later appear.Of course she wasn't the same.They had not made her sexy yet.But in spite of Everette's pantomime version of his intellectual humor,Baby Peggy's up stages about every one,even Jeanne Carpenter,who plays Budge her sister.Its funny when Baby Peggy and Jeanne are following a dog that running away from them,After a Sunday visit with Clara and her mom and Everette does not watch his nieces as they go out of the house.The two kids end up in a Gypsy camp,where some nice gypsy people give her the dog,but ,they end up dangerously,the girls , walking the dog on the rail road track,as a train is about heading their way.The plot is about the parents of Toddie and Budge,Helen ,played by Claire Adams and Tom,played Richard Tucker,not the opera singe of course,have been reading her brother new book on taking care of your child and been following it ,written by Helen's Brother Harry,played by Ev,whom we learn later does not have any understanding on child raising,He's only doing it for the money.Helen Gets a letter from her brother that he want to visit them.Tom and Helen decide to take advantage of Harry visits by taking a vacation and having Harry baby sit with their daughters.This is when trouble happens when Harry thinks hes going to be resting on the weekend.Instead Toodie and Budge starts playing with his minds and gets him in all sorts of trouble.Like when he thinks a bunch a gypsies stole his nieces and rampaged their camp,only in the end to have to pay for the damage.Clara in this film is acting just like a normal teenage girl rather than a flirtatious sex symbol.She was showing in this film her ability to act in different roles,before she was stuck ,including the talkies, as the it girl.Very entertaining.A rare silent appearance of Edward Everette Horton,Clara Bow playing a different role than she would be playing later on.And Peggy Montgomery in her too short film career. She would become writer Diana Serra Cary 04/19/13