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Baby Face is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred E. Green released in USA on 13 july 1933 with Barbara Stanwyck

Baby Face (1933)

Baby Face
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Released in USA 13 july 1933
Length 1h11
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Noir,    Romance
Rating74% 3.7470553.7470553.7470553.7470553.747055

Baby Face is a 1933 American Pre-Code dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), this sexually charged, Pre-Code Hollywood film is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status.

Marketed with the salacious tag line, "She had it and made it pay", the film's open discussion of sex made it one of the most notorious films of the Pre-Code Hollywood era and helped bring the era to a close. The New York Times quotes Mark A. Vieira, author of Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood as saying, "'Baby Face' was certainly one of the top 10 films that caused the Production Code to be enforced."

Synopsis

Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her life is miserable; since the age of 14, her father (Robert Barrat) has had her sleep with many of his customers. The only man she trusts, a cobbler who admires Friedrich Nietzsche, is upset with her lack of ambition and counsels her to try for greater things. When Lily's father is killed when his still explodes, she sheds no tears for him. She visits the cobbler, who tells her to make for the city and use her charms to her advantage. She and her African American co-worker/friend Chico (Theresa Harris) hop on a freight train out of town but are discovered by a railroad worker who threatens to have them thrown in jail. She says, "Wait ... can't we talk this over?" It is strongly implied that she has sex with him during a filmmaking fadeout to get him to change his mind.

Actors

Barbara Stanwyck

(Lily Powers)George Brent

(Courtland Trenholm)Donald Cook

(Ned Stevens)Henry Kolker

(J.R. Carter)Margaret Lindsay

(Ann Carter)
And :
Alphonse Ethier
John Wayne
Douglass Dumbrille
Robert Barrat
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