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Baby Face
She climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong!
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.
- Original title
- Baby Face
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $187,000
- Revenue
- $451,000
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Sep 24, 2022 · via TMDB
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.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Lily Powers
George Brent
Courtland Trenholm
Donald Cook
Ned Stevens
Alphonse Ethier
Adolf Cragg
Henry Kolker
J.R. Carter
Margaret Lindsay
Ann Carter
Arthur Hohl
Ed Sipple
John Wayne
Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Robert Barrat
Nick Powers
Douglass Dumbrille
Brody
Theresa Harris
Chico
Joan Barclay
Job Seeker (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Hodges (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Mrs. Hemingway (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
Pratt - Personnel Office (uncredited)
Nat Pendleton
Stolvich - Laborer (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
Jameson - Bank Director (uncredited)
Toby Wing
Office Worker (uncredited)
James Bush
Paris Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Frank Darien
Paris Bank Agent (uncredited)
John Elliott
Bank Director (uncredited)
Harry Gribbon
Doorman (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Bank Director (uncredited)
Reginald Mason
Gault - Bank Director (uncredited)
Spec O'Donnell
Office Boy (uncredited)
Matty Roubert
Newsboy (uncredited)
Charles Sellon
Vanderlure - Bank Director (uncredited)
Harry Semels
Speakeasy Drunk (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Laborer (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Laborer (uncredited)
Renee Whitney
Office Worker (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Laborer (uncredited)
James Murray
Brakeman (uncredited)
Dick Winslow
Office Boy (uncredited)
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Alfred E. Green
Director
Howard Bretherton
Editor
Raymond Griffith
Producer
William LeBaron
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Gene Markey
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Darryl F. Zanuck
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Jul 13, 1933
Los Angeles, California
