Blessed Event

Blessed EventYellow journalism is not exactly new, as this 1932 sendup of a keyhole peeping columnist proves. Early Hollywood bad boy Lee Tracy (who created the Hildy Johnson role for The Front Page on Broadway) portrays raspy Alvin Roberts, whose zest for unearthing short marriage to maternity spans among Broadway's notables lifts him from lowly clerk to tabloid king. Once on top, he's convinced that no one is exempt from his poison pen. But there are some

loving grandmother and kind aunt and uncle

When the bootleg boss confronts him

who plays Joe's girlfriend

As the deception deepens to desire and then love

To survive

and filmed entirely on location in beautiful Rome

How she got there forms the twisted heart of this psychological crime thriller

a Russian mistress (Binnie Barnes) and betrayal at almost every turn

I Married an Angel was the studio's choice for the soprano's first Metro film

George Kennedy is the addled sheriff on his trail

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so too does the insurance investigator tasked with its retrieval