She climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong!
Plot Summary
Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building...
Run Time
71 min, 76 min (restored version)
Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Genre
Drama
Language
English
Keyword
Bank, Speakeasy, Nietzsche, Sexually Aggressive Woman, Melodrama
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Mono
Colour
Black and White
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Melodrama
Themes
Ladder to the Top
Tones
Cynical, Slick, Satirical
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3
Wikipedia Text
Baby Face is a sexually-charged, pre-Code Drama film, first released in 1933. The picture is about an attractive young woman played by Barbara Stanwyck who uses sex to advance her social and financial status. 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 Stanwyck and George Brent, and features Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, John Wayne, and Margaret Lindsay.
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