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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 33. Chapters: A Lost Lady (film), A Thousand and One Nights (film), Baby Face (film), Colleen (film), Cover Up (film), Dangerous (film), Disraeli (film), Gentlemen Are Born, Housewife (film), Inez from Hollywood, Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film), In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter, Let's Get Married (1937 film), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film), Men of the Sky, Mr. Winkle Goes to War, Parachute Jumper, Silver Dollar (film), Smart Money (film), Sweet Kitty Bellairs, The Dark Horse (film), The Eddie Cantor Story, The Fabulous Dorseys, The Ghost Breaker (1922 film), The Girl from 10th Avenue, The Golden Arrow, The Green Goddess (1930 film), The Jolson Story, The League of Frightened Men (1937 film), The Man from Blankley's, The Mayor of 44th Street, The Rich Are Always with Us, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, Top Banana (film), Two Gals and a Guy, Two in a Crowd, Union Depot (film). Excerpt: Baby Face is a 1933 American dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), this sexually-charged, Pre-Code Hollywood film is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status. Marketed with the salacious tag line, "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. Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her life has been miserable; since the age of 14, her father (Robert Barrat) has had her sleep with many of his customers. The only man she trusts, a cobbler who admires Friedrich Nietzsche, tells her that she should start afresh in a new city and use men to get what she wants. When Lily's father is killed in a still explosion, she sheds no tears for him. She and her African American co-worker/friend Chico (Theresa Harris) hop on a freight train out of town, but are discovered by a railroad worker, who threatens to have them thrown in jail. She says, "Wait ... can't we talk this over?" It is strongly implied that she has sex with him during a fadeout to get him to change his mind. In New York City, Lily gets a job at the Gotham Trust, even though she has no office experience. The personnel man asks Lily, "Have you had any experience?," to which Lily replies, "Plenty!" She then entices him into his absent boss's office to demonstrate. Her progress, sleeping her way to the top, is shown in a recurring visual metaphor of the movie camera panning ever upward along the edifice of the Gotham Trust's skyscraper, accompanied by the saxophone wail of St. Louis Blues. Her second conquest is Jimmy McCoy Jr. (John Wayne), who recommends her for promotion to her next victim, Brody (Douglass Dumbrille). Lily eventually ensnares Ned Stevens (Donald Cook), a rising young executi
