
Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank sub-manager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. When he complains of not seeing her she says: "I'm working so hard I have to go to bed early every night.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank sub-manager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. When he complains of not seeing her she says: "I'm working so hard I have to go to bed early every night.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonInarguably one of the greatest screen actresses of the century, Stanwyck gives one of her strongest performances here, all fire and hunger and pain. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIf you've never seen Stanwyck in a pre-Code film, you've never really seen Stanwyck. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA fascinatingly conflicted artifact of Depression-era do-me feminism. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonIt's easy to see an anti-feminist 'Just look what happens to women who break the rules' underneath what is most obviously simply straight-up salaciousness. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzRacy melodrama made before the Production Code. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottThey can't take their eyes off her. You won't be able to either. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeEngagingly shocking to audiences who think of old movies as quaint and innocent. |
| Bryant Frazer's Deep FocusBryant FrazerBaby Face is sort of the ultimate pre-Code film, with its repetitive form %u2014 that same come-hither look, that same goggle-eyed assent from the dude on the receiving end %u2014 almost beggaring belief. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...an amazing film for any age because it is purely about sex. Not X-rated, pornographic sex, but raw, sensual, unequivocal, unmitigated sex, nevertheless. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordThe peppy title tune over the opening credits hardly prepares you for the sordid story that follows... |