Fast-paced newspaper comedy stars Lee Tracy as a Walter Winchell-esque gossip columnist whose skills at digging up dirt on show business shotgun weddings bring him to the top of his profession. When the people he's burned in print start looking for payback, however, he finds there's nowhere to go but down. Dick Powell (in his film debut), Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ned Sparks co-star. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.

SKU: D59590

$12.99

Regularly $29.99

Add Gift Wrap $2.99 EA view details

Category:: Comedy
Director:: Roy Del Ruth
Rated:: NR
Color:: Black & White
Format:: DVD-R Fullscreen
Closed Captioned:: No; Cast: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Milton Wallace, Edwin Maxwell, Emma Dunn, Isabel Jewel, George Chandler, Frank McHugh, Tom Dugan, Walter Miller, William Halligan, George Meeker, Walter Walker, Ruth Hall, Jesse DeVorska, Harold Waldridge, Lew Harvey, Bobby Gordon, Herman Bing, Charles Levinson, Jack La Rue

TELL A FRIEND

Remember The Night

(1940) DVD - Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi - $19.99

Penthouse

(1933) DVD - Starring: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth - $12.99

Upperworld

(1934) DVD - Starring: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers - $12.99

If you like "Blessed Event" you may also be interested in these:

large image

Jean Arthur Comedy Collection

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, George Murphy

Jean Arthur stars as a manicurist on an ocean liner who falls in love with a cocky reporter who's come aboard in hot pursuit of a notorious gangster, in the comedic crime caper "The Public Menace" (1935). ... more

Regularly $39.99 $34.99
large image

Lady Behave (1937)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Sally Eilers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut

Lighthearted romantic romp about a woman who elopes with a millionaire after drinking too much at a party. Problem is, she's already married, and her sister must impersonate her in order to save the ... more

Regularly $9.99 $7.99
large image

The Robert Montgomery Collection

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Robert Montgomery, Tallulah Bankhead, Sally Eilers

Cocky young sailor Montgomery sets course for a challenging courtship of admiral's daughter Dorothy Jordan in "Shipmates" (1931). Bailiff Robert is "The Man in Possession" (1931) of broke heiress Irene ... more

Regularly $59.99 $49.99
large image

Loose Ankles (1930)/The Naughty Flirt (1931)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Loretta Young, Alice White, Paul Page

Tired of her snooty aunts' making her inheritance contingent on keeping up a respectable appearance, free-spirited Loretta Young advertises for a gigolo in order to stir up scandal. She has to settle ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

I've Got Your Number (1934)/Havana Widows (1933)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins

The two go-to tough cookies of the '30s Warner Brothers lot, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, are teamed in this pair of comic treats. "I've Got Your Number" finds the pair being romanced by smooth-talking ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

Traveling Saleslady (1935)/Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan

Brassy blondes Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell pooled their talents for this pair of Warner charmers. Joan opts to become a "Traveling Saleslady" when her stodgy toothpaste magnate dad thinks there's ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

A Soldier's Plaything (1930)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Lotti Loder, Harry Langdon, Ben Lyon

Music and laughs leaven this tale of America's early involvement in World War I that looks at the lives of several young doughboys and their respective motivations for heading overseas. Ben Lyon, Harry ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

The Matrimonial Bed (1930)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Frank Fay, Lilyan Tashman, James Gleason

A woman (Florence Eldridge) makes an appointment with the city's most in-demand hairdresser (Frank Fay), and upon finally meeting him, is shockingly certain he's the husband she believed lost in a train ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

Clear All Wires! (1933)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel

Pre-Code farce stars Lee Tracy as a hotshot foreign correspondent who's not above being the story when there's nothing to report. When a flirtation with his publisher's girl leads the paper to leave ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99
large image

Lovin' The Ladies (1930)

Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Allen Kearns

Taking a $5,000 bet that he can introduce any two strangers and have them engaged within a month, Allan Kearns selects his subjects: snooty socialite Renee Macready and humble electrician Richard ... more

Regularly $29.99 $12.99