Blessed Event
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Blessed Event | |
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Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
Written by | Howard J. Green |
Based on | Blessed Event 1932 play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson |
Starring | Lee Tracy Mary Brian |
Music by | Frank Marsales |
Cinematography | Sol Polito |
Edited by | James Gibbon |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.[1]
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Plot summary[edit]
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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[edit]
- 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
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External links[edit]
- Blessed Event at the TCM Movie Database
- Blessed Event at the Internet Movie Database
- Blessed Event at AllMovie
- Blessed Event at the American Film Institute Catalog
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