Blessed Event

Blessed Event

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.
Release dates	September 10, 1932 (1932-09-10)
Running time	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.^[1]

Plot summary

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.

Cast

Lee Tracy as Alvin Roberts
Mary Brian as Gladys Price
Allen Jenkins as Frankie Wells
Ruth Donnelly as Miss Stevens
Ned Sparks as George Moxley
Dick Powell as Bunny Harmon
Edwin Maxwell as Sam Goebel
Emma Dunn as Mrs. Roberts
Isabel Jewell as Dorothy Lane (uncredited)
George Chandler as Hanson

References

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External links

Blessed Event at the TCM Movie Database
Blessed Event at the Internet Movie Database
Blessed Event at AllMovie
Blessed Event at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by Roy Del Ruth

The Cat's Meow (1924)
Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
Hogan's Alley (1925)
The Man Upstairs (1926)
The Little Irish Girl (1926)
Footloose Widows (1926)
Across the Pacific (1926)
The First Auto (1927)
If I Were Single (1927)
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Powder My Back (1928)
Conquest (1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
The Terror (1928)
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
The Desert Song (1929)
The Hottentot (1929)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
The Aviator (1929)
Hold Everything (1930)
The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Life of the Party (1930)
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
My Past (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Side Show (1931)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Taxi! (1932)
Winner Take All (1932)
Blessed Event (1932)
Beauty and the Boss (1932)
The Mind Reader (1933)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Captured! (1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Upper World (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Kid Millions (1934)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
Private Number (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
Born to Dance (1936)
On the Avenue (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Tail Spin (1939)
The Star Maker (1939)
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
He Married His Wife (1940)
Topper Returns (1941)
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Red Light (1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
The West Point Story (1950)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Starlift (1951)
About Face (1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
The Alligator People (1959)
Why Must I Die? (1960)

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