A fascinatingly conflicted artifact of Depression-era do-me feminism.
Baby Face (1933)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:10
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 72 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Nubile Lily Powers can't keep men away, so she decides to go on the offensive and to put her sexual endowments to work for her. She leaves behind her ho-hum steel town environs for the... Nubile Lily Powers can't keep men away, so she decides to go on the offensive and to put her sexual endowments to work for her. She leaves behind her ho-hum steel town environs for the hustle-and-bustle of New York and finds work in a bank. There, she attempts to flirt with, and eventually bed, every executive she meets in her scheme to rise to the top of the financial heap. But she discovers that her sluttish exploits ruin the lives of the men around her. Tragedy follows in her wake, as she uses and disposes of her suitors, one by one. Ultimately, however, Lily realizes she does have a heart. [More]
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Margaret Lindsay
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Margaret Lindsay, Douglass Dumbrille, John Wayne, Arthur Hohl, Henry Kolker
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Story: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Raymond Griffith
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Reviews for Baby Face
Baby Face is sort of the ultimate pre-Code film, with its repetitive form %u2014 that same come-hither look, that same goggle-eyed assent from the dude on the receiving end %u2014 almost beggaring belief.
Inarguably one of the greatest screen actresses of the century, Stanwyck gives one of her strongest performances here, all fire and hunger and pain.
...an amazing film for any age because it is purely about sex. Not X-rated, pornographic sex, but raw, sensual, unequivocal, unmitigated sex, nevertheless.
The peppy title tune over the opening credits hardly prepares you for the sordid story that follows...
Engagingly shocking to audiences who think of old movies as quaint and innocent.
If you've never seen Stanwyck in a pre-Code film, you've never really seen Stanwyck.
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