Barbara Stanwyck gives one of her best performances as a girl who climbs the ladder of success "wrong by wrong" in BABY FACE, a once-notorious and still quite outrageous pre-Code sex fable that was one of the key movies that led to the adoption of Hollywood's censorship board.
Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the attractive young daughter of a steel-town speakeasy owner (Robert Barrat) who forces her to be "friendly" with the customers. When her father dies during a still explosion, Lily takes the advice of a kindly old cobbler (Alphonse Ethier) to go to New York and
make something of herself. Using the only thing she's got, her feminine wiles, Lily immediately...
Released:
1933
Rated:
NR
Length:
70 mins