Blessed Event
| Blessed Event | |
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| 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 |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | James Gibbon |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Blessed Event is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and 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 marked Dick Powell's film debut.