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Baby Face (1933)

Director: Alfred E Green

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From Time Out Film Guide

Directed with more pace than style, but what matter with Stanwyck in peak form? Starting out as a barmaid in dad's speakeasy in the Pittsburgh slums, she moves to New York when he dies, and calculatingly climbs man by man from basement to penthouse. For all the moralising which has her pre-Hayes Code golddigging lead through fraught paths to true love, the character probably grew into the Phyllis Dietrichson of Double Indemnity.

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Director: Alfred E Green

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Henry Kolker, Douglas Dumbrille, Margaret Lindsay, John Wayne full cast

Duration: 68 mins


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