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Black & White Movie Night: Headin’ Home
March 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST
Free
It’s Black & White Movie Night! In honor of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day in March, we are showing silent film Headin’ Home (1920) starring none other than…Babe Ruth. Who knew he could act? (or not?!)
No pre-registration required. Masks encouraged.
Free popcorn provided by Woodbury 10 Theatre.
Summary of Headin’ Home via PublicDomainMovies.Info: “Heading Home (also called Headin’ Home) is a 1920 American silent sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom. It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.
Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory. In the film, shades of the baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.
The screenplay was written by Arthur “Bugs” Baer from a story by Earle Browne. Directed by Lawrence C. Windom.
Cast:
Babe Ruth as Babe
Ruth Taylor as Mildred Tobin
William Sheer as Harry Knight
Margaret Seddon as Babe’s Mother
Frances Victory as Pigtails
James A. Marcus as Simon Tobin
Ralf Harolde as John Tobin”