Blessed Event
Blessed Event is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Lee Tracy as a newspaper gossip columnist who becomes entangled with a gangster. The Tracy character (Alvin Roberts) was reportedly patterned after Walter Winchell, famous gossip columnist of the era. The film was Dick Powell's film debut.
Plot summary
Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) feuds with Bunny Harmon (Dick Powell), a singer. Roberts reports on society people who are expecting, i.e. going to have a child. One such report antagonizes a gangster in a delicate situation, who sends over a henchman to threaten him. Roberts manages to turn the tables on the gangster.
Cast
Lee Tracy as Alvin Roberts
Mary Brian as Gladys Price
Allen Jenkins as Frankie Wells
Ruth Donnelly as Miss Stevens
Ned Sparks as George Moxley
Dick Powell as Bunny Harmon
Edwin Maxwell as Sam Goebel
Emma Dunn as Mrs. Roberts
Isabel Jewell as Dorothy Lane (uncredited)
George Chandler as Hanson
References
External links
Blessed Event at the TCM Movie Database