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Blessed Event (Warner Archive)
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Blessed Event (Warner Archive) (1932)
Starring:  Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Emma Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Ned Sparks, Walter Walker, Frank McHugh, Charles Lane, Isabel Jewell, Jack La Rue, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Director:  Roy Del Ruth
Genre:  Comedy, Drama
Year:  1932
Studio:  Warner Home Video
Length:  80 minutes
Released:   April 3, 2012
Rating:  NR
Format:  DVD
Misc:  NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White
Language:  English(Original Language)
SYNOPSIS:
Yellow journalism is not exactly new, as this 1932 sendup of a keyhole-peeping columnist proves.

Early Hollywood bad boy Lee Tracy (who created the Hildy Johnson role for The Front Page on Broadway) portrays raspy Alvin Roberts, whose zest for unearthing short marriage-to-maternity spans among Broadway’s notables lifts him from lowly clerk to tabloid king. Once on top, he’s convinced that no one is exempt from his poison pen. But there are some pinstriped types in town who intend to prove him dead wrong.

This fast-paced film features a cast of fine character actors. It also marked the film debut of Dick Powell, who later went on to play Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet. But it is Tracy’s cocky, ingenious scandalmonger that had critics raving, “Lee Tracy does the role to the hilt” (Motion Picture Herald).

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