Babes in Toyland

Condemned by the PTA

by Dan Moray

posted 4/1/2002

"I wrote frantically on the train all the way so we could have a script when I got back," said Hal Roach, who produced Babes in Toyland, a 1934 film adaptation of the Victor Herbert operetta that is every bit as busy as Roach himself on his trip back to Hollywood from New York, where he had seen it on the stage. Part Mother Goose, part Brothers Grimm,

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