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Baby Face
Why this pick
Like Three on a Match, it is a brisk, pre-Code Warner drama centered on a woman pursuing escape and power in a hard, unsentimental city.
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MOVIE1932 1h 3m USA
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Night Nurse
Why this pick
This shares the nervy pre-Code pace, Joan Blondell’s streetwise warmth, and a seemingly ordinary woman drawn into danger by corrupt privilege.
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Female
Why this pick
A sleek, frank pre-Code portrait of sexual independence and executive power, with the same compressed melodrama and worldly Warner Bros. bite.
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The Purchase Price
Why this pick
Barbara Stanwyck brings the same restless, socially mobile pre-Code heroine energy, balancing romance, hardship, and a fast-moving escape from the city.
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Midnight Mary
Why this pick
Its fatalistic criminal underworld, tough heroine, and rapid emotional turns echo the dark trajectory beneath Three on a Match’s glamorous surface.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Three women who went to the same elementary school, Mary (Joan Blondell), Ruth (Bette Davis), and Vivian (Ann Dvorak), meet again as young adults after some time apart. They each light a cigarette from the same match and discuss Three on a Match (superstition) and that Vivian, the last to light her cigarette, will be the first to die.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joan Blondell
Mary Keaton aka Mary Bernard
Sheila Terry
Naomi
Frankie Darro
Bobby
Glenda Farrell
Mrs. Black
Bette Davis
Ruth Wescott
Lyle Talbot
Michael 'Mike' Loftus
Humphrey Bogart
Harve
Allen Jenkins
Dick