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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.
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...
- 3 min
- 5.8K
- Warner Bros. Classics
Blessed Event: Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins. Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Roy Del Ruth
- 1932-09-10
Based on a Broadway play by Manuel Self and Forrest Wilson, Blessed Event satirizes the cut-throat world of tabloid journalism in the early 1930s and the rise of Winchell (1897-1972), an ex-vaudevillian who, through his syndicated Hearst column, pioneered a lurid brand of “keyhole journalism” that’s still practiced today. Through his ...
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Blessed Event - (Original Trailer) Fast-talking pre-code actor Lee Tracy stars in a thinly disguised portrait of rising gossip columnist Walter Winchell, Blessed Event (1932).
May 26, 2021 · Pressbook for the film Blessed Event, directed by Roy Del Ruth and distributed by Warner Bros.
