Blessed Event (1932)

Directed by

Roy Del Ruth

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gossip columnist uses his inside information to manipulate people and get ahead. He gets in over his head when he crosses a gangster.

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What happens

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. The film marked Dick Powell's film debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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