May 14, 2010
oldhollywood: Barbara Stanwyck & her favorite self-help manual in Babyface (1933, dir. Alfred E. Green) “For decades, “Baby Face” — the 1933 film starring Barbara Stanwyck — has been pre-Code 101. If you want to turn someone onto pre-censorship movies at their most fun, sleazy and outrageous, just take them to “Baby Face,” and from there they’ll be inspired to explore the whole era. “If you’ve never seen Stanwyck in a pre-Code film, you’ve never really seen Stanwyck. Never in her later career, including “Double Indemnity,” was she ever as hard-boiled as she was in the early 1930s. She had a wonderful quality of being both incredibly cool and yet blazingly passionate. Her cynicism was profound, and then, without warning, she would explode into shrieking, sobbing, saliva-spraying hurt and rage. What an indelible, one-of-a-kind talent.” -excerpted from Mick LaSalle’s review of the restored version of Babyface, which features additional scenes that were cut to get it past the censor boards The uncut version of the film can be seen online here. 

oldhollywood:

Barbara Stanwyck & her favorite self-help manual in Babyface (1933, dir. Alfred E. Green)

“For decades, “Baby Face” — the 1933 film starring Barbara Stanwyck — has been pre-Code 101. If you want to turn someone onto pre-censorship movies at their most fun, sleazy and outrageous, just take them to “Baby Face,” and from there they’ll be inspired to explore the whole era.

“If you’ve never seen Stanwyck in a pre-Code film, you’ve never really seen Stanwyck. Never in her later career, including “Double Indemnity,” was she ever as hard-boiled as she was in the early 1930s. She had a wonderful quality of being both incredibly cool and yet blazingly passionate. Her cynicism was profound, and then, without warning, she would explode into shrieking, sobbing, saliva-spraying hurt and rage. What an indelible, one-of-a-kind talent.”

-excerpted from Mick LaSalle’s review of the restored version of Babyface, which features additional scenes that were cut to get it past the censor boards

The uncut version of the film can be seen online here. 

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