Blessed Event (1932) - (Movie Clip) The Devil In Southampton

Blessed Event - (Original Trailer)

Fast-talking pre-code actor Lee Tracy stars in a thinly disguised portrait of rising gossip columnist Walter Winchell, Blessed Event (1932).

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Read My Stuff?

Off to a flying start in the definitive Lee Tracy pre-Code picture, his first starring role, as novice newsman Alvin, from the advertising department, filling in for a vacationing columnist, having discovered the trick of fabricating news of prominent pregnancies, Ruth Donnelly as Miss Stevens, Mary Brian as society writer Gladys, in Blessed Event, 1932, from a play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson.

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) How Can You Say No?

Often mentioned but seen now for the first time 30-minutes into the picture, Dick Powell as radio band-leader Bunny Harmon, the frequent target and general enemy of gossip columnist Alvin (Lee Tracy) offers a tune by Joseph Burke, Al Dubin and Irving Kahal, then an insult as he hands off to Alvin, who counters, in Warner Bros.’ Blessed Event, 1932.