Today, thanks to the Internet Archive, I am offering up Baby Face from 1933 featuring the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck in a torrid, pre-code melodrama that IMDB describes as:

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

Keep your eyes open for an incredibly young John Wayne playing a bit part as a hapless white collar employee hoping to make time with Stanwyck. Needless to say, this was well before Wayne was a screen icon in his own right so he doesn’t John Wayne his role. Stanwyck is the star, and she leaves The Duke and a slew of other men on the side of the road as she climbs that corporate ladder.

ADDENDUM

Baby Face was yanked from the Internet Archive, but it is available as of this writing to view legally in the USA at TubiTV. Check it out HERE!