She tells them she is a victim of circumstance who merely wants to make an honest living. The board of directors, learning that Lily has agreed to sell her diary to the press for $10,000, summons her to a meeting. P., then himself.Ĭourtland Trenholm, the grandson of Gotham Trust's founder and a notorious playboy, is elected bank president to handle the resulting scandal. He later returns to her apartment to ask her to marry him, but finds J. Ned tracks her down on Christmas Day, but she spurns him. P., and he installs her in a lavish apartment, with Chico as her maid. Lily claims she had no idea Ned was engaged and that he was her first boyfriend. calls Lily to his office to fire her himself.
Ann runs crying to her father, who tells Ned to fire Lily. When Ann calls to say she will be visiting, Lily arranges to have Ann see her embracing Ned. Ned believes her and gives her a position in his accounting department.Īlthough Ned is engaged to Ann Carter, the daughter of First Vice President J.
Brody is fired, but Lily claims Brody forced himself on her. Brody and Lily are caught in flagrante delicto by a rising young executive, Ned Stevens. She seduces Brody and is transferred to the mortgage department. In the filing department, Lily begins an affair with Jimmy McCoy Jr., who recommends her for promotion to his boss, Brody. Her subsequent rise through the building symbolizes her progress in sleeping her way to the top. She seduces the personnel worker to land a job. In New York, Lily goes inside the Gotham Trust building. He threatens to have them thrown in jail, but Lily unbuttons her blouse and says, "Wait. She and her African-American co-worker and best friend Chico hop a freight train to New York City, but are discovered by a railroad worker. Cragg tells Lily to move to a big city and use her power over men. Lily's father is killed when his still explodes. The only man she trusts is Cragg, a cobbler who admires Friedrich Nietzsche and advises her to aspire to greater things. Since the age of 14, her father has had her sleep with many of his customers. Lily Powers works for her father, Nick in a speakeasy in Erie, Pennsylvania during Prohibition.
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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." In 2005, Baby Face was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Marketed with the salacious tagline "She had it and made it pay", the film's open discussion of sex made it one of the most notorious films of the Pre-Code Hollywood era and helped bring the era to a close as enforcement of the code became stricter beginning in 1934. Twenty-five-year-old John Wayne plays a supporting role as one of Powers's lovers. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), Baby Face is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status. Green for Warner Bros., starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, and featuring George Brent. Baby Face is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred E. He served a stint in Bootsy Collins' backing unit (where he earned his nickname) and. Kenneth Edmonds was born April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis and began playing in local R&B bands as a teenager. You'd be hard-pressed to name a '90s hitmaker with a track record more consistently successful and versatile than Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds. Yet their considerable success was eclipsed by his songwriting and production work for other artists, which linked him with some of the biggest stars and hit singles of the decade (and not just in the realm of R&B).
His own recordings helped rejuvenate the R&B tradition of the smooth, sensitive, urban crooner and made him a staple of urban contemporary radio. As a singer, producer, and songwriter, Babyface was an inescapable presence in virtually every major facet of pop music during the '90s.