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Baby Face

Drama

Directed by Alfred E. Green

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. From TMDB

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Baby Face is a 1933 drama film, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent and Donald Cook.

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  • Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Showing my Film I students BABY FACE (1933) and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) tonight. You know what holds up like a motherfucker? Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert separated by the Walls of Jericho. Really, it hasn't aged a day.

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  • Molly Rasberry @mrasberry.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Baby Face (1933) is a pre code film about how fanboys of Friedrich Nietzsche will inevitably ruin your life espousing the worldview they believe Nietzsche had.

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    And one more of Barbara checking her makeup in the slammer for Ladies They Talk About (1933). She would follow up the film with a star making turn in the equally hardboiled Baby Face (1933).

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  • Karen @thedarkpages.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2026

    Remembering Barbara Stanwyck, who #dotd in 1990 at the age of 82. I love her in everything I've ever seen her in. Some of my many favorites are Baby Face, Double Indemnity, Night Nurse, and the underrated Internes Can't Take Money. Can you recommend a Stanwyck movie that doesn't get enough love?

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  • SangrePaul @sauzapaul.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    Turning tricks in her father's speakeasy since she was 14, Barbara Stanwyck leaves the slums for the big big city and finds she can get far more value for her body in Baby Face (1933) She sleeps her way to the top floor at a bank and leaves a path of destruction in her wake. Great movie. #PreCode

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2024

    Another dramatic take of Barbara for Baby Face (1933), a film one online writer called “the ‘Gone with the Wind’ of pre-Code.”

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  • Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    Dead End (1937). Bogart stars as the murderous gangster Baby Face Martin coming home to a slum on the East River. Here the Dead End Kids hang out (their first of many film appearances). They take over the movie. This is great poverty porn.

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    Ginger Rogers — as “Baby Face” — and Eddie Quillan in a still from The Tip-Off (1931). Trivia: the film was Ginger’s first Hollywood production and marked her debut for RKO.

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  • (Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    Tonight's movie: Baby Face, a blackly hilarious 1933 "romance" starring Barbara Stanwyck as a Nietzsche-reading grifter (no, really) who sleeps her way to the top of a bank, only to give it all up for love in a thoroughly unconvincing ending. It's on HBO Max.

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  • 🧛✨Tsu 👑💍 @tsuother.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    i been reminded of the one and only "baby" on the first movie... i will need so much more on this second one, serious work here, no laughing, CALL THAT MAN BABY FACE TO FACE

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  • Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    Baby Face is a Die Hard movie. #TCMParty

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    🎞️35mm Film Frames of BABY FACE starring Barbara Stanwyck🎞️ Catch a Barbara Stanwyck Pre-Code Double Feature of NIGHT NURSE + BABY FACE, this Saturday January 3rd at 11:30am! Both films presented in 35mm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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  • Michael Avolio - PCX table 17 @michaelavolio.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    A lot of these are great movies & some of the best work by Barbara Stanwyck, one of the all-time great screen actors. If you're in Chicago, don't miss the double feature of the quintessential pre-code film Night Nurse & my favorite pre-code, Baby Face.

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  • Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    Tonight on TCM #TCM BABY FACE (1933) The pinnacle of pre-Code Hollywood. We discuss this gem and other pre-Code films on our FILM FREAKS FOREVER podcast. With Barhara Stanwyck and Theresa Harris. Essential viewing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    Another take of Barbara by Longworth in publicity for Baby Face (1933). The now-iconic pre-Code film about a woman who uses sex as power to advance her career came from an original story written by Warner exec Darryl Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield).

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    More of Barbara in costume for Baby Face (1933). The film was said to be instrumental in the enforcement of the Hays Code. "Blue and nothing else," wrote a critic for Variety. "Anything hotter than this for public showing would call for an asbestos audience blanket."

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  • Molly Rasberry @mrasberry.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2025

    It was wild but unsurprising to learn that one of the elements of the film Baby Face (1933) that scandalized people, leading to the implementation of the hays code, was the fact the main character paid her maid Chico enough money to buy fancy furs during the depression.

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  • American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2026

    Upcoming ‘Film by the Foot’ screenings – both for $6.84 each at the box office! 🎞️ See top-of-the-line cinema for just 10¢ per 100 feet Friday’s at 1 pm at LF3: 3/6 – Alfred E. Green’s BABY FACE (1933) in 35mm 3/20 – Robert Bresson’s PICKPOCKET (1959) www.americancinematheque.com/series/film-...

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  • Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    Barbara wears her Orry-Kelly gown in a still from Baby Face (1933) and dancing with co-star George Brent. The film was the third of five films they made together.

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  • teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Stanwyck speaking this whole film into existence in Baby Face. #BallOfFire #TCMParty

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  • Angela @materialgirl850.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2023

    I usually only do one outdoor movie each weekend, but since I'm on vacation, I couldn't resist Baby Face on the deck tonight.

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  • Paul Findley @paulfindley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    Baby Face Nelson. Did you even watch the movie?

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  • Brian Holder @brianholderd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    #FilmSky #MovieSky a year’s worth of movies I love Jul-4, 185/365 Baby Face (1933) Probably my favourite pre-code. In any case, Barbara Stanwyck can make any film be a candidate for this relatively short list.

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  • Maine's Black Lawyer @lutherevers.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Harris appeared in the Warner Bros. Film Baby Face, opposite acclaimed actress Barbara Stanwyck. Harris shined in the role, and showed up that same year in RKO's Professional Sweetheart. Despite her character being pivotal to the plot, Harris again went uncredited. youtu.be/8A-8TXb70_c?...

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  • jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Baby Face (1933) is prime for a remake. Female gangster type who gets ahead despite ruthless capitalist patriarchy by sleeping her way to the top. Showed it in Film History class last week, students always love it.

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    #MayMovieChallenge 5/26 John Wayne in a movie Baby Face (1933) #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky 📽️

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  • Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    "Warners’ near-bottomless film archive" contains more than 6,000 titles -- including Gaslight, Out of the Past, Dark Passage, Baby Face, Cat People, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and *many other* gems that it licenses for theatrical exhibition. 🎞️📽️

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  • Ron Evans 🇨🇦 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2025

    Random Early Movie Trailers. Baby Face (1933) Dir. Alfred E. Green. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Cook, John Wayne. Nominated for 11 Will H. Hays Burst Blood Vessel Awards. I wish modern-day trailers were made like this! youtu.be/t9ISuXjeSBA?...

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  • Ron Evans 🇨🇦 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    Random Early Jazz Records. It’s Fox Trot Time! Going back a whopping 99 years, here’s Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - Baby Face (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1926). Fun Fact: An instrumental version of this tune was used in the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck film of the same name! youtu.be/NoBkX51le4I?...

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  • Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    BABY FACE is the movie this glorious GIF is from, it's a fave of mine, and if you've never seen it do yourself a favor & watch it. Especially if you're not familiar with what Pre-Code films are like--it's an eye-opener. (Also, Stanwyck's wardrobe is MAGNIFICENT.)

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  • Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.comBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Man, there's a lot more cold-blooded murder, sex and insanity going on here than I would've expected from a film entitled "Baby Face"

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  • Bufo Calvin @bufocalvin.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    #MultiviewsOfMadness #filmsky Saw Baby Face (1933) on @Tubi. @JennniferWest & others had mentioned this movie & I'd never seen it. I love it when that happens & leads me to watch something I might not have seen otherwise. Barbara Stanwyck stars & it's a bravura performance!

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  • Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2023

    Mini review: Baby Face (1933), a surprisingly empathetic film in which Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top during the depths of the Depression boxd.it/5gw2pP

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  • Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2023

    Well that was fantastic! Quite a polished story line and a real feast for Barbara Stanwyk fans! No wonder it’s so highly rated. When a film is REALLY exceptional, I’d be happy to immediately watch it all over again from start to finish, and “Baby Face” is one of the few films I can say this about 📽️

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 10/1 Movie scene that shows a cup of coffee Baby Face (1933) #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky

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  • Matt(hew) @dmatthew.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    'Baby Face' is a regular feature in my History of Cinema class. Pre-Code doesn't get much better. She's fantastic in that deranged film.

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  • Faeryn (DuckyPop) @duckypopvideo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    #MayMovieChallenge May 26th: John Wayne in a movie Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933) #filmsky #moviesky

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  • James Fanson @jlfanson.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    He was impressed with her 1933 performance in the scandalous film Baby Face, which I’ve seen. She is a modern actor in that film, ahead of her time, and head and shoulders above all the other performers.

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  • reenierobme.bsky.social @reenierobme.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2025

    25-year-old John Wayne with Barbara Stanwyck in "Baby Face," 1933. He wasn't a big star then either. Definitely a pre-code movie.....she sleeps her way to the top.

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  • Ron Evans 🇨🇦 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    No Context Movie Trailers. Baby Face (1933) Dir. Alfred E. Green. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris, George Brent, Donald Cook, and a very young (& hot!) John Wayne! Worth the ticket price alone just to fall in love with Stanwyck’s amorous gaze.😍 youtu.be/t9ISuXjeSBA?...

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  • Christian Lipski @christianlipski.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2024

    Walk, don't run to Tubi, as BABY FACE (1933) is there. Scandalous pre-code film about a woman who uses men to get what she wants.

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  • shaver @letterbotoxd.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2024

    Baby Face is probably my favorite Barbara Stanwyck movie, and might be my favorite precode, too. It's great #tcmparty

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    19 September 1910 – 1981 Margaret Lindsay, 71, US actress. #LGBT Mary McCarty (partner d. 1980) Baby Face (1933) * Jezebel * The House of Seven Gables * British Intelligence * Ellery Queen film series * The Spoilers * Scarlet Street * Please Don't Eat the Daisies * Tammy and the Doctor (1963)

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    #Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge 9/6 Movie featuring coffee Baby Face (1933) Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) pours hot coffee on the hand of a sleazy politician who runs his hand up her leg then says "Oh, excuse me. My hand shakes so when I'm around you." #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky

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  • James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    I enjoyed the film more when Humphrey Bogard was in it (as local mobster "Baby Face" Martin) and the film leant more strongly into the crime genre. But that is just one thread in what is really a mural piece about neighbourhood life with a range of different characters living cheek by jowl. 6/6

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  • Faeryn (DuckyPop) @duckypopvideo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    #maymoviechallenge May 6th: The Depression Era movie Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933) #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Lil Legendre’s laughing, pre-Code escape from retribution at the end of this film laid the groundwork for a Warner Bros brand of punishment for Barbara Stanwyck’s Lily in Baby Face (1933). From Mark A. Vieira’s Sin in Soft Focus:

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  • Angela @materialgirl850.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    I've had the version of St. Louis Blues from the movie Baby Face set as the ringtone on my phone for several years now and I don't think I'll ever change it again.

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    Remembering the underrated George Brent, Irish classic film, stage, and television actor on his 122nd birthday, popular for his roles in 42nd STREET, BABY FACE, FEMALE, JEZEBEL, DARK VICTORY, THE GREAT LIE, MY REPUTATION, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, TANGIER INCIDENT, and much more.

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    23 September 1920 – 2014 Mickey Rooney, 93, US actor, singer, dancer Boys Town (1938 Oscar) - OscarNom: Babes in Arms * Human Comedy * The Bold and the Brave * The Black Stallion Film debut (age 6) * Andy Hardy (1938-58) National Velvet * Quicksand * Baby Face Nelson * Bill * Honorary Oscar (1983)

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  • Terra Incognita 🇨🇦 ⚫️🟣⚪️ @terraincognita1968.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    One of mine, as well. Now if only they had tacked on the ending from "Red-Headed Woman" to "Baby Face", it would have been a perfect movie!

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  • Argyle & Izzy @littlefeather25.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    “Baby Face” with a very young Barbara Stanwyck. My favorite pre-Hayes Code movie so far.

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  • Douglas Johnson @rallydally.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. #filmsky #precode #filmchallenge #classichollywood 06/20 Baby Face (Green, 1933)

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  • Christian Lipski @christianlipski.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2024

    Omg y'all, Baby Face (1933) is my favorite pre-code movie, and I love Barbara Stanwyck. It's on Tubi for freeeeeeeeeeee Stanwyck's character literally sleeps her way to the top like a boss. Scandalous!

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    23 September 1920 – 2014 Mickey Rooney, 93, US actor, singer, dancer. Film debut 1927 * Andy Hardy * Boys Town * Babes in Arms * Human Comedy (OscarNom) National Velvet * Bold and the Brave (OscarNom) * Baby Face Nelson * Requiem for a Heavyweight * Babe Pig in the City * Night at the Museum (2014)

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  • Allan "Pealed Grapes" Mott @houseofglib.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    If I still did Letterboxd here would be my pre-code ratings: ECSTASY 3.5/5 Genuinely hot but loses steam when Hedy isn't there TARZAN AND HIS MATE 4/5 A wild, sexy adventure film more about Jane BABY FACE 4.5/5 Amazing Barbara, bad end THE SIGN OF CROSS - 2.5/5 That high only because of Colbert

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  • Patrick Murtha @patrickmurtha.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Agreed. Public Enemies is one Michael Mann film that simply doesn’t work. Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book is superb, and unlike the movie, thoroughly contrapuntal, cutting back and forth between Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie & Clyde, Barker / Karpis Gang.

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  • A Real Joel Dehn @arealjoeldehn.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    I love TMWWT, but the best performance in a Coen Bros. movie is Peter Gallagher as Vic Tenetta in The Hudsucker Proxy, followed by the "That's Baby Face Nelson" lady in O Brother and John Turturro in Miller's Crossing. The opinion of others may vary.

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  • siguesiguesputnik @siguesiguesputnik.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2026

    This movie is epic, in my opinion. It's dark and gritty and Stanwyck's performance is outstanding. " Baby Face " should be on everyone's 'watch' list.

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  • PETE from Middle Class Film Class @therealpeeeete.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Solo pod this week with special guest, Seth Vargas from Movie Friends podcast. Pete and Seth talk pre-code movies, Baby Face (1933), and the merits of artistic integrity. youtu.be/uAhqa_Dx7AI

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