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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.
Original Release
09/10/1932
US Release
09/10/1932
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lee Tracy | Alvin Roberts |
Mary Brian | Gladys Price |
Dick Powell | Bunny Harmon |
Allen Jenkins | Frankie Wells |
Ruth Donnelly | Miss Stevens |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Roberts |
Edwin Maxwell | Sam Gobel |
Ned Sparks | George Moxley |
Walter Walker | Mr. Miller |
Frank McHugh | Reilly |
Directors
Writers
Howard J. Green, Forrest Wilson, Manuel Seff
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lee Tracy | Alvin Roberts |
Mary Brian | Gladys Price |
Dick Powell | Bunny Harmon |
Allen Jenkins | Frankie Wells |
Ruth Donnelly | Miss Stevens |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Roberts |
Edwin Maxwell | Sam Gobel |
Ned Sparks | George Moxley |
Walter Walker | Mr. Miller |
Frank McHugh | Reilly |
Herman Bing | Emil - the Head Chef / Emil |
George Chandler | Hanson |
Jesse De Vorska | Morris Shapiro |
Tom Dugan | Dick Cooper |
Robert Gordon | Eddie - the Office Boy |
Ruth Hall | Miss Bauman |
William Halligan | Herbert Flint |
Lew Harvey | Joe - Gobel's Henchman / Joe |
Isabel Jewell | Dorothy Lane |
Jack La Rue | Louis De Marco |