Drama

Baby Face

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

Barbara Stanwyck

George Brent

Donald Cook

Alphonse Ethier

Henry Kolker

Margaret Lindsay

Arthur Hohl

John Wayne

Robert Barrat

Douglass Dumbrille

Theresa Harris

Joan Barclay

Charles Coleman

Heinie Conklin

Grace Hayle

Maynard Holmes

Nat Pendleton

Edward Van Sloan

Toby Wing

James Bush

Jack Curtis

Frank Darien

John Elliott

Harry Gribbon

Edward LeSaint

Reginald Mason

Spec O'Donnell

Henry Otho

Donna Mae Roberts

Matty Roubert

Cliff Saum

Charles Sellon

Harry Semels

Harry Tenbrook

Jacques Vanaire

Sailor Vincent

Renee Whitney

Josephine Whittell

Harry Wilson

Arthur De Kuh

Harry Forsman

James Murray

Dick Winslow

Alfred E. Green

Gene Markey

Darryl F. Zanuck

Kathryn Scola

William LeBaron

James Van Trees

Howard Bretherton

Leo F. Forbstein

Anton Grot

Orry-Kelly

Oliver S. Garretson

Raymond Griffith

Maxwell Arnow

Fred Fox

Buddy Longworth

William Forsyth

William Maybery

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Barbara Stanwyck is at the top of her game in this cracking story of a young girl "Lily" who thanks to her pal "Cragg" (Alphonse Ethier) and some ideology from Nietzsche quickly discovers that she can use her femininity and her brains to get on in life. When her exploitative father has a rather unfortunate accident with a still, she heads to the big city where she shrewdly works her way through the bosses (including a young John Wayne) right to the top - accumulating wealth and wrecking relationships and marriages as she goes. Will she manage to get away with it all, or will she get her comeuppance? Well you will have to watch and see, but along the way we get a frequently humorous depiction of a lady who knows exactly how to manipulate these shallow, fickle and all-too-often stupidly horny men for her own advantage. She is not ruthless with everyone, though. She stays friends with her old companion "Chico" (Theresa Harris) whose observations and gentle ditties pepper the relentlessness as "Lily" quite literally gets to the top of the pile. Though it is entertaining to watch her use and abuse her menfolk, I can't say that I especially warmed to her character as she started to develop a rather thoughtless, maybe even cruel, streak - especially with the emotionally challenged "Trenholm" (George Brent) - her pièce de resistance! Without being graphic, this is a splendid piece of sexually charged cinema, and Miss Stanwyck almost glows with sultriness and ambition. The use of the exterior of the building to illustrate her climb up the ladder of success is fun, as are the increasing scenarios of confusion and desperation among the men whose attentions she craves, uses and steps on to leave behind. Great fun and pokes a potent finger at many of the flaws in a "man's world". Sexy, clever and well worth a watch.

Jacqueline Stewart and Alicia Malone on Baby Face (1933) Starring Barbara Stanwyck

Michael Schlesinger on BABYFACE

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Barbara Stanwyck

George Brent

Donald Cook

Alphonse Ethier

Henry Kolker

Margaret Lindsay

Arthur Hohl

John Wayne

Robert Barrat

Douglass Dumbrille

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