More Permy Over Time
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.
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Show Notes
Old Movie News
Books: Home Work, second Julie Andrews memoir
Blu-rays: Double-feature,The Captain's Paradise (1953) and Barnacle Bill (1957) Kino Lorber, It Started with a Kiss (1959) Warner Archive, Hollywood Horror House (1973), Vinegar Syndrome, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Kino Lorber
Celluloid Sightings
More Noir City Hollywood: suggestions on what to see, TCM highlights for second half of March: Star of the Month, Joe E. Brown, racism in America, 26, Mankiewicz family weekend, 27-29, 100 years of womens' suffrage, 31
Baby Face (1933)
- trailer
- Available to stream: Rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu
- On disc: Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 1
