Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen is a 1934 pre-Code American comedy-drama film, starring Dorothea Wieck, Alice Brady, and Baby LeRoy, written by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Storm from a novel and story by Rupert Hughes, and directed by Alexander Hall.

One of them, impoverished Molly Prentiss who is also a single mother and who receives a signed photo of her idol at the beginning of the film after watching Fane finish a take with her leading man, comes to the rescue.

Unlike the real case, Michael Fane is recovered safely and unharmed, in compliance with the Hays Office.

Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times enthusiastically called the film "extraordinarily effective," and singled out for praise its leading lady: "Miss Wieck's interpretation of mental agony is subdued but very true.

[3] Martin Dickstein allowed that the film "provides Miss Wieck with better screen material than did Cradle Song" but that it "drags perceptively in the early reels" and was "a far less interesting drama than it might have been.