{"id":39916,"date":"2023-01-22T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39916"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:16:07","slug":"movie-matinee-baby-face-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/01\/22\/movie-matinee-baby-face-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Matinee &#8212; Baby Face (1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace\/movie-matinee-header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"movie-matinee-header\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5696\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=640%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/baby-face-1933-barbara-stanwyck-john-wayne-george-brent-theresa-harris-283708426915\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>Today, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/baby-face-1933-barbara-stanwyck-john-wayne-george-brent-theresa-harris-283708426915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Internet Archive<\/em><\/a>, I am offering up <em>Baby Face<\/em> from 1933 featuring the incomparable <em>Barbara Stanwyck<\/em> in a torrid, <a href=\"http:\/\/pre-code.com\/what-is-pre-code-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-code<\/a> melodrama that IMDB describes as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank &#8211; by gleefully seducing her way to the top.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep your eyes open for an incredibly young <em>John Wayne<\/em> 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&#8217;t <em>John Wayne<\/em> his role. Stanwyck is the star, and she leaves <em>The Duke<\/em> and a slew of other men on the side of the road as she climbs that corporate ladder.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>ADDENDUM<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Baby Face<\/em> was yanked from the Internet Archive, but it is available as of this writing to view legally in the USA at <em>TubiTV<\/em>. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/100012212\/baby-face\"><strong>HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43820\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/01\/22\/movie-matinee-baby-face-1933\/tubi-baby-face\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tubi-baby-face.jpg?fit=640%2C285&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,285\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tubi-baby-face\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tubi-baby-face.jpg?fit=640%2C285&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43820\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tubi-baby-face.jpg?resize=640%2C285&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tubi-baby-face.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tubi-baby-face.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/01\/22\/movie-matinee-baby-face-1933\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[368],"tags":[5093,5552,582,152,5553,583,5554,196,5092],"class_list":["post-39916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","tag-5093","tag-barbara-stanwyck","tag-crime","tag-film","tag-hayes-code","tag-hollywood","tag-john-wayne","tag-movie","tag-pre-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-anO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36163,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/06\/26\/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":39916,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s the End of the World as We Know It","author":"Joe","date":"June 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Long before the overstuffed, CGI abominations such as The Day After Tomorrow and Man of Steel which I refer to as disaster porn and four decades before the disaster cycle of films of the '70s such as The Towering Inferno and Earthquake there was the end of the world opus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weird World of the Roku&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weird World of the Roku","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/weird-world-of-the-roku\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The city crumbles","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/civilization-crumbles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/civilization-crumbles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/civilization-crumbles.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/civilization-crumbles.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2819,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/15\/sunday-matinee\/","url_meta":{"origin":39916,"position":1},"title":"Sunday Matinee","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, kids, it's a new category - Sunday Matinee! 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