Blessed Event
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Written by | Howard J. Green |
| Based on |
Blessed Event 1932 play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson |
| Starring |
Lee Tracy Mary Brian |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | James Gibbon |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Blessed Event is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film 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 was Dick Powell's film debut.
Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) feuds with Bunny Harmon (Dick Powell), a singer. Roberts reports on society people who are expecting, i.e. going to have a child. One such report antagonizes a gangster in a delicate situation, who sends over a henchman to threaten him. Roberts manages to turn the tables on the gangster.
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