Baby Face is a sexually-charged, pre-Code Drama film, first released in 1933. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), written by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, and directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, and features Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, John Wayne, and Margaret Lindsay.
Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) is a waitress who works for her father in a ...
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Baby Face is a sexually-charged, pre-Code Drama film, first released in 1933. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), written by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, and directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, and features Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, John Wayne, and Margaret Lindsay.
Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) is a waitress who works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her life is a miserable existence because, since the age of 14, her father (Robert Barrat) has forced her to sleep with many of his customers. Lily seeks the advice of the only man she trusts, a cobbler, who tells her that she can do better by going to a big city. When Lily's father is killed in a still explosion, she sheds no tears for him. She and her African American co-worker/female friend Chico (Theresa Harris) hop on a freight train out of town, but are discovered by a railroad worker,...
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