"BABY FACE"
This pre-Code (1933) movie features Barbara Stanwyck as Lilly Powers, a tough cookie who waitresses for and is pimped out by her speakeasy proprietor father in dreary Erie PA. Escaping with her friend and sometimes maid Chico (Theresa Harris) by boxcar, she lands in NYC and is determined to sleep her way to the top of a big bank. Although dated, "Baby Face" is quite racy and overtly suggestive for its time. Stanwyck, always good, is excellent here--determined to get ahead and totally unsentimental about all the saps she seduced on the way up. One of them is naive Jimmy McCoy Jr., played by a very young John Wayne. Matinee idol George Brent is the last in line. Really good little (73 minutes) movie.


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E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.