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Blessed Event is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and 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.
Mar 2, 2012 · Blessed Event (1932) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #BlessedEventYellow journalism is not exactly new, as this 1932 send up of a keyhole-peeping columnist proves...
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May 3, 2021 · Blessed Event is a showcase for this talent, casting Tracy as Alvin Roberts, a gossip columnist who finds that dirt sells. His coup de grace is that he invents a way of indicating a pregnancy– society women ‘anticipate a blessed event’– and then becoming utterly ruthless in his quest to outboast and outbrag every other writer out there.
Blessed Event (1932) is a terrifically fast, hilarious pre-code comedy with it's main character based on 30's tabloid writer Walter Winchell. Lee Tracy plays Alvin Roberts, the main character, who runs the "dirtiest" gossip column in New York, but events ensue that may have to cause him to give up his column.
May 26, 2021 · Pressbook for the film "Blessed Event," directed by Roy Del Ruth and distributed by Warner Bros. Addeddate 2021-05-26 19:39:52 Date-end 1932-01-01T23:23:59Z ...
Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Devil In Southampton Columnist Moxley (Ned Sparks) returns from vacation to chew out his substitute (Lee Tracy as Alvin Roberts) for printing outrageous society gossip, Miss Stevens (Ruth Donnelly) steering clear, when the editor Miller (Walter Walker) arrives with a surprise ruling, in director Roy Del Ruth’s Blessed Event, 1932, from Warner Bros.