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Babyface 1933 PreCode Barbara Stanwyck Mark A. Vieira, author of Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood has said, "Baby Face was certainly one of the top 10 films that caused the Production Code to be enforced." | Because We Love Classic Cinema

Brassy Barbara Stanwyck and Pre-Code Hollywood Posted on December 17, 2017 by ahcadmin BABY FACE Deleted Scene In 1934, the Hays Code began to be strictly enforced in Hollywood to clean up alleged indecency in movies. All evil-doers had to meet their just rewards. What spurred the prudish policing? Hardboiled flicks like Baby Face. This 1933 film had Barbara Stanwyck playing young Lily Powers whose bootlegger father hires out her favors to the local men. She fights off the men who want her, but

Baby Face is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros., starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, and featuring George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), Baby Face portrays an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status. Twenty-five-year-old John Wayne appears briefly as one of Powers's lovers. Marketed with the salacious tagline "She had it and made it pay" the film's open dis