Lily has had a rough life. Her father has basically been pimping her out, and she's had it! She and her friend Chico, who happens to be a black woman, take off for New York so Lily soon begins climbing the corporate ladder, using each corporate executive s weakness to obtain what she wants. Because that's how Nietzsche would want her to do it. "Baby Face" is a quintessential pre-code movie. And it had a lot to do with the code being enforced a few months aster its release.

Baby Face

Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman and Jean MacDonald

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Baby Face (1933)

• trailer
• Available to stream: Rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu
• On disc: Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 1

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