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Baby Face (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
70 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1933 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alfred E. Green

Written By:
Gene Markey
Kathryn Scola

Actors:
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Lily
George Brent ..... Trenholm
Donald Cook ..... Stevens
Alphonse Ethier ..... Cragg
Henry Kolker ..... Carter
Margaret Lindsay ..... Ann Carter
Arthur Hohl ..... Ed Sipple
John Wayne ..... Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Robert Barrat ..... Nick Powers
Douglass Dumbrille ..... Brody
Theresa Harris ..... Chico

Synopsis:

Lily Powers has led a difficult life working in her loutish father's speakeasy in Erie, Pennsylvania, he who coerced her into prostitution since she was 14. When she is given a chance to start a new life, she is advised by Adolf Cragg, her friend and a follower of the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, to use her power over men to get want she wants. Moving to New York City with her friend and conspirator Chico, Lily does exactly that. She decides to sleep her way up the corporate ladder at Gotham Trust, using men the way they have used her in the past. In her quest, she not only uses those men, but ruins them in the process. Her main goal is to find the man who can best afford to provide her a carefree lifestyle. Things for Lily and for Gotham Trust itself change when the bank's board appoints a new company president, playboy Courtland Trenholm.

Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank sub-manager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. When he complains of not seeing her she says: "I'm working so hard I have to go to bed early every night."

Lily Powers has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town, but his death gives her the chance to move on to New York. With her experience in using her looks to get on she is soon on her way to the top, cynically stepping over men as she no longer needs them.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 03 March, 2014.