History Film / BabyFace

* GaussianGirl: Lily
* GoldDigger: Lily

* TheStoic: Lily

* SaltAndPepper: Lily and Chico

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] [[{{Face}} professional wrestlers who get cheered by fans.]] or the [[Music/{{Babyface}} similarly-named R&B singer/producer]]

->'''Courtland''': When this thing happened, were you working very hard?
->'''Lily''': Yeah, but not at the bank.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] [[{{Face}} professional wrestlers who get cheered by fans.]]

* TitledAfterTheSong: The eponymous 1926 standard is used as an InstrumentalThemeTune.

* OfficeLady: Lily, when she's not [[GoldDigger digging for gold]]
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Lily usually initiates the relationships with her bosses and when caught, will blame them of SexualExtortion and claim to be a victim of circumstance.

* RealSongThemeTune: The well-known eponymous standard, which predates the film by several years.

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* BlackBestFriend: "If Chico goes, I go!"

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Professor Cragg told Lily there was "a right way and a wrong way" after describing the type of power she has, but that was ''all'' he said and left Lily to draw her own conclusions.
** Only in the censored version. In the uncensored version, Cragg encourages Lily to exploit her powers over men to get what she wants.
* VideoCredits: At the beginning, introducing the main players.
** This was a standard feature of Warner Brothers' opening credits from about 1932-34.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] [[{{Face}} professional wrestlers who get cheered by fans.]]

After her father dies in a still explosion, Lily finally heeds Cragg's advice. She and Chico, her black friend/maid, run off to NewYorkCity, where Lily proceeds to sleep her way up to the top of a bank, eventually becoming a kept woman. Hearts are broken, etc., etc.

''Baby Face'', a 1933 Creator/WarnerBros drama directed by Alfred E. Green, is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films.

''Baby Face'', a 1933 Creator/WarnerBros drama directed by Alfred E. Green and adapted from an original story penned by future Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck under a pseudonym, is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films.

A young Creator/JohnWayne, years before he became a star, appears here as one of [[PlayingAgainstType Lily's pathetic rejects]].

''Baby Face'', a 1933 Creator/WarnerBros drama directed by Alfred E. Green and adapted from an original story by future Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films.

''Baby Face'', a 1933 drama directed by Alfred E. Green and adapted from an original story by future studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films.

''Baby Face'' (1933) is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films. It stars Creator/BarbaraStanwyck as Lily Powers, a young woman with more than her share of hard knocks. A speakeasy waitress in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lily divides her time between fighting off the advances of the customers and turning tricks at the behest of her widowed father/pimp, a bootlegger. She seems to look forward only to visits from Mr. Cragg, a Nietzsche-quoting cobbler who exhorts her to [[TheVamp "use men, not let them use you!"]]

''Baby Face'' (1933) is one of the sleazier [[ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] films. It stars Creator/BarbaraStanwyck as Lily Powers, a young woman with more than her share of hard knocks. A speakeasy waitress in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lily divides her time between fighting off the advances of the customers and turning tricks at the behest of her father/pimp, who's employed as a bootlegger. She seems to look forward only to visits from Mr. Cragg, a Nietzsche-quoting cobbler who exhorts her to [[TheVamp "use men, not let them use you!"]]