A middle-aged couple in Paris have a hard time making ends meet while caring for the baby of a dying mother whom they promised they watch over the child. When they see a fancy automobile parked outside a shop, they think the wealthy owner would be able to care for the baby, so they put him in the back seat.
The wealthy owner is Monsieur Rene, a playboy and member of the idle rich who has just returned from an African safari. He doesn't see the baby when he returns to his car. But, when the butler unloads his luggage, he discovers the baby. A young woman shows up from the agency he called for a baby nurse, and Sally fits int eh story of the redemption of this man.
"A Bedtime Story" is a comedy romance with some tunes for Maurice Chevalier as Rene. Helen Twelvetrees plays Sally, and Edward Everett Horton leads the supporting cast that includes Baby LeRoy. It was the debut for the young baby who was picked out from an orphanage. He would be in just 10 films over 2 ½ years, including comedies and dramas, and is best remembered for the three films he was in with W. C. Fields.
While the acting and other aspects of the film are okay, it's a little hard to believe Chevalier's conversion in this story. And, one probably had to be an adult in the early 1930s to understand Monsieur Rene's remark about people laughing at babies. Babies have probably made people laugh since the beginning of time. But, Monsieur Rene didn't' seem to understand the context. For what it's worth, here is his line - " I didn't know that people laughed at babies. I know that people sometimes rib each other. But I never knew they laughed at babies because they were alive."
