Blessed Event

Fast-talking Lee Tracy stars as a gossip columnist loosely based on real-life fast-talking radio gossip monger Walter Winchell, a man who will reveal any secret and destroy any person to further his meteoric rise to fame. Along the way, newspaper gossip columnist Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) makes enemies of both big-time racketeer Sam Gobel (Edwin Maxwell) and popular crooner Bunny Harmon (Dick Powell). But Roberts' knowledge of dirty secrets protects him--even from the hit man sent to kill him, whom Roberts blackmails into becoming his bodyguard. But even as malicious gossip fuels Roberts' rise, it destroys his personal life.