Babyface
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Babyface or Baby Face can refer to:
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Fictional characters
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- Baby Face NelsonBaby Face NelsonLester Joseph Gillis , known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s. Gillis was known as Baby Face Nelson, a name given to him due to his youthful appearance and small stature...
, an infamous 1930s bank robber - Roosevelt "Baby Face" WilletteBaby Face WilletteRoosevelt "Baby Face" Willette was a hard bop and soul-jazz musician most known for playing Hammond organ. It is unclear whether he was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, or New Orleans, Louisiana...
(1933-1971), an American hard bop and soul-jazz musician - "Baby Face", Jimmy McLarninJimmy McLarninJames McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxer who became two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.-Background:McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a large Methodist family who emigrated...
(1907-2004), two-time welterweight boxing world champion - "Baby Face", the Baldwin DR-4-4-15Baldwin DR-4-4-15The Baldwin DR-4-4-15 was a cab unit-type diesel locomotive built for freight service by the Baldwin Locomotive Works between November 1947 and June 1950. It was produced in two different body types, nicknamed the "Babyface" and "Sharknose" styles by railfans, though Baldwin used the same model...
locomotive - "Babyface Killer", Chow Yun-fatChow Yun-FatChow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
- "The Baby-Faced Assassin", Ole Gunnar SolskjærOle Gunnar SolskjærOle Gunnar Solskjær is the manager of Norwegian first division side Molde. He is better known as a former footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United. Often dubbed "the baby-faced assassin," he played 366 times for the Red Devils and scored 126 goals during a very...
, a former Manchester United football player
In music:
- Babyface (musician), real name Kenneth Edmonds, an American R&B and pop record producer, musician, singer and songwriter
- "Baby Face" (1926 song)Baby Face (1926 song)Baby Face is a popular song. The music was written by Harry Akst, the lyrics by Benny Davis. The song was published in 1926. That same year, Jan Garber had a number one hit with the song....
, 1926 song with music by Harry Akst and lyrics by Benny Davis - "Babyface" (song), a song by U2 on their 1993 album Zooropa
- Babyface, the former name of rock band Axe (band)Axe (band)Axe is a hard rock band from Florida, USA, formed in 1979. Not to be confused with Chicago based band AXE the band, consisting of Ron Sammons, Mike Bayless, Rick Turco, Joey Martinez, Brad Harris, and Matt Ketchum.- Biography:...
- Baby Faced KillerBaby Faced KillerBaby Faced Killer is the 2nd solo album of British rock singer David Byron. It was his first since being sacked by Uriah Heep.-Track listing:# Baby Faced Killer – 3:10# Rich Man's Lady – 3:51...
, a David Byron solo album - Babyface UnpluggedBabyface UnpluggedMTV Unplugged NYC 1997 is a live album from R&B artist, Babyface. It includes other performers such as Eric Clapton, Shanice, K-Ci & JoJo, Kevon Edmonds, Melvin Edmonds, Sheila E...
, an album by the artist Babyface
Fictional characters
- Baby-Face Finster, a criminal disguised as a baby in the Merrie Melodies animated short film Baby Buggy BunnyBaby Buggy BunnyBaby Buggy Bunny is a Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese in 1954. The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the...
- Babyface, a character in the movie Toy StoryToy StoryToy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
- Baby Face FinlaysonBaby Face FinlaysonBaby Face Finlayson was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, first appearing in issue 1553, dated 22 April 1972...
, a character in the British comic The Beano - Baby Face, a character in the video game Dynamite HeaddyDynamite Headdyis a video game released in 1994 by Sega and produced by Treasure. It was released on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis system, with ports to the Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System. A port for the Sega 32X was planned, but due to the system's low popularity, the port was canceled...
- Babyface Beagle, one of the Beagle BoysBeagle BoysThe Beagle Boys are a group of fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe. Created by Carl Barks, they are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck. Their introduction and first appearance was in Terror of the Beagle Boys, in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134,...
from the television series DuckTales - Baby Face Gang, a literally baby-faced gang boss from the television series Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- Baby Face, a character in the movie The Hills Run RedThe Hills Run RedThe Hills Run Red is one of the earliest spaghetti westerns made after the Eastwood/Leone Italian western boom, in 1967 and directed by Carlo Lizzani...
from 2009
Other:
- Baby Face (film)Baby Face (film)Baby Face is a 1933 American dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck , this sexually-charged, Pre-Code Hollywood film is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status...
, a 1933 film starring Barbara Stanwyck - Face (professional wrestling)Face (professional wrestling)In professional wrestling, a babyface or face or in simple words, a fan favorite is a character who is portrayed as a heroic relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains...
, or babyface, a wrestler or character who is portrayed as a "good guy" - A face displaying cutenessCutenessCuteness is the appeal commonly associated with neoteny.- Cuteness effects :Humans respond favorably to a neotenized appearance A neotenized appearance elicits sympathy from humans as well as protective urges...
- A face displaying neotenyNeotenyNeoteny , also called juvenilization , is one of the two ways by which paedomorphism can arise. Paedomorphism is the retention by adults of traits previously seen only in juveniles, and is a subject studied in the field of developmental biology. In neoteny, the physiological development of an...