Blessed Event

{{short description|1932 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Blessed Event

| image = Blessed Event FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption =

| director = Roy Del Ruth

| producer =

| based_on = {{based on|Blessed Event
1932 play|Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson}}

| writer = Howard J. Green

| narrator =

| starring = Lee Tracy
Mary Brian

| music = Frank Marsales

| cinematography = Sol Polito

| editing = James Gibbon

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

| released = {{Film date|1932|09|10}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.{{cite news |last=Holmes |first=E. M. |date=September 17, 1932 |title="Blessed Event" Is Spicy Comedy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-star-blessed-event-is-spicy-com/171132585/ |work=Ledger-Star |access-date=April 24, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}} 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.