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“Baby Face,” directed by Alfred E. Green, con-cerns a “gold-digging” young woman from a small town who moves up the economic ladder by using her brains and her sexuality. As one of the film’s tag line notes, “she climbed the ladder of success -- wrong by wrong,” while another adds “she had it [sex appeal] and made it pay.” Motion Picture Herald.
Baby Face is a 1933 American pre-Code-enforcement drama film directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros., starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, and featuring George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), Baby Face portrays a young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status.
Baby Face, a 1933 film starring Barbara Stanwyck, featured salacious themes of sexual immorality that caused controversy but were commercially successful. Stanwyck's character Lily Powers uses her sexuality to climb the ladder of success, achieving a type of "American Dream."
4 Δεκ 2017 · This summary of the plot, though brief, illuminates some key difference between Lillian and Lily. While Lillian seduces and marries a man at the beginning of the film, Lily only marries towards the film’s end.
19 Δεκ 2007 · Barbara Stanwyck’s character, Lily, has just witnessed her abusive pimp/father blown to pieces after his illegal home-brewery explodes.
I was blown away by how downright subversive, unapologetically feminist, and radical "Baby Face" was for a movie made all the way back in 1933. The pre-code era, as I would come to find out, was a wondrous time for the film industry. The story is simple but perfect.
Lily (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.
