While most readings of “Baby Face” understandably emphasize Lily's use of sexuality to conquer and rise to the top, perhaps it is also Lily's blatant embrace of modernism and its brazen capitalist predatory zeal and Art Deco style that assures her success.
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Dec 4, 2017 · After a while of living the high life and gathering money and jewels, the bank is in crisis, and Lily's husband is threatened with indictment.
Jan 19, 2024 · Lily "Baby Face" Powers (Babs) is tired being taken advantage of and knocked around by her father and other men. She makes it clear, in what has ...
Jul 21, 2021 · In Barbara Stanwyck's infamous Pre-Code film, Orry-Kelly's costumes play a key role in illustrating the title character's path to riches.
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Aug 8, 2016 · This movie may represent the pinnacle of cinematic “offenses” that pre-Code films committed that had conservatives and self-appointed morality ...
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Synopsis This film follows the sexual escapades of Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck), the beautiful daughter of a speakeasy owner. Lily's dreary life in ...
May 25, 2008 · In early May I wrote about 1933's Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck in a highly charged pre-Code melodrama about a woman's dubious rise ...
Oct 20, 2005 · The fast-paced, raw story of a woman who uses sex to increase her wealth and power still has the ability to shock. Now with a newly discovered, ...
May 17, 2023 · Baby Face (1933), which is approaching its 90th anniversary, captured the Great Depression and the American decline that affected women on an ...
Jun 29, 2022 · Barbara Stanwyck plays an attitude as much as a character in Baby Face ·, but what an attitude. After fleeing from the factory town where her ...