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.

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

External links

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