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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.
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.
Baby Face (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Talk This Thing Over Brassy Lily (Barbara Stanwyck, title character) and her sidekick Chico (Theresa Harris) have just decided to ride boxcars to New York, having cone on hard times in their small city, but they meet a brakeman (James Murray), in Baby Face, 1933.
Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood. Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works as a barmaid in her father's factory-town saloon where she learns to deal with the unwanted advances of male customers.
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.
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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.
