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Baby Face (1933)

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Film details

Featuring

Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Donald Cook
Director

Alfred E. Green
Country

USA
Year

1933
Genre

Crime
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Lily Powers, the daughter of an abusive speakeasy owner, leaves the confines of steel town Erie, Pennsylvania in search of a better life. Using her "unique beauty and personality" she works her way up the corporate ladder of the Gotham Trust Company, scandalizing New York society in the process, before true love causes the wheel of life to turn full circle.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Lilly Powers
    
    Barbara Stanwyck
  - Courtenay Trenholm
    
    George Brent
  - Ned Stevens
    
    Donald Cook
  - Dr. Adolf Cragg
    
    Alphonse Ethier
  - J.P. Carter
    
    Henry Kolker
  - Ann Carter
    
    Margaret Lindsay
  - Ed Sipple
    
    Arthur Hohl
  - Jimmy McCoy
    
    John Wayne
  - Nick Powers
    
    Robert Barrat
  - Brody
    
    Douglass Dumbrille
  - Chico
    
    Theresa Harris
  - doorman
    
    Harry Gribbon
  - Stolvich
    
    Nat Pendleton
  - Paris bank official
    
    Frank Darien
  - butler
    
    Charles Coleman
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Alfred E. Green
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Warner Bros.
  Writing:
  - Script
    
    Gene Markey
  - Script
    
    Kathryn Scola
  - Original story
    
    Canfield, Mark
  Photography:
  - Photography
    
    James Van Trees
  Editing:
  - Editor
    
    Howard Bretherton
  Design:
  - Art Director
    
    Anton F. Grot
  Costumes:
  - Gowns
    
    Orry-Kelly
  Music:
  - Vitaphone Orchestra conducted by
    
    Leo F. Forbstein

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