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Blessed Event is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Del Ruth released in USA on 10 september 1932 with Lee Tracy
Blessed Event (1932)
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Add to a movie listBlessed Event is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Lee Tracy as a newspaper gossip columnist who becomes entangled with a gangster. The Tracy character (Alvin Roberts) was reportedly patterned after Walter Winchell, famous gossip columnist of the era. The film was Dick Powell's film debut.
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Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) feuds with Bunny Harmon (Dick Powell), a singer. Roberts reports on society people who are expecting, i.e. going to have a child. One such report antagonizes a gangster in a delicate situation, who sends over a henchman to threaten him. Roberts manages to turn the tables on the gangster.Actors
Lee Tracy
(Alvin Roberts)
Mary Brian
(Gladys Price)
Allen Jenkins
(Frankie Wells)
Ruth Donnelly
(Miss Stevens)
Ned Sparks
(George Moxley)
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