Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett.
[3] Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays a middle aged former film star, Grace Wheeler, who nostalgically watches the film; Walking My Baby Back Home music composer Henry Mancini was the composer of the Columbo theme music as well.
[4] Donald O'Connor enjoyed working with Janet Leigh.
Nine times out of 10 we'd do all those beautiful dance routines on cement, and she got very tired, started falling a lot on her knees.
[5]A World War II veteran joins a minstrel show and falls in love with the daughter of the troupe's patriarch.