Baby Face is a 1933 American dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck , this sexually-charged, Pre-Code Hollywood film is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status. Marketed with the salacious tag line, "She had it and made it pay", the film's open discussion of sex made it one of the most notorious films of the Pre-Code Hollywood era. Lily Powers works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her life has been miserable; since... the age of 14, her father has had her sleep with many of his customers. The only man she trusts, a cobbler who admires Friedrich Nietzsche, tells her that she should start afresh in a new city and use men to get what she wants. When Lily's father is killed in a still explosion, she sheds no tears for him. She and her African American co-worker/friend Chico hop on a freight train out of town, but are discovered by a railroad worker, who threatens to have them thrown in jail.
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| Release date: | July 1, 1933 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Green |
| Runtime: | 71 Minutes |
| Producer: | Raymond Griffith, William LeBaron |
| Editor: | Howard Bretherton |
| Music by: | Harry Akst, Ralph Erwin, Beth Slater Whitson, Beth Slater Whitson, Fritz Rotter |
| Cinematography: | James Van Trees |
| Screenplay by: | Darryl F. Zanuck, Kathryn Scola, Gene Markey |
| Estimated budget: | $187,000 |