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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 an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial ...
Baby Face: Directed by Alfred E. Green. With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier. A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Lily's dreary life in Pennsylvania takes a sudden turn when her father is killed in an accident. Unmoved by her father's death, Lily, along with friend Chico (Theresa Harris), jumps on a freight ...
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a beautiful schemer who uses her charm to rise in a banking empire. Watch the film, see photos, read reviews and trivia on Turner Classic Movies.
When her father dies, Baby Face takes her maid and moves to New York, where she marries young office boy Jimmy McCoy (Academy Award winner John Wayne), the first in a series of marriages and lovers that ends in control of Gotham Trust.
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.
Baby Face (1933) Perhaps the most notorious pre-Code Hollywood film, Baby Face features Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, a working-class woman who uses men and sex in exchange for material gain during the height of the Depression.
