Beauty for the Asking
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Plot
Jean Russell is a beautician who is jilted by her boyfriend so he can marry an older but wealthy woman. Russell invents a new facial cream, and with the financial backing of her former boyfriend's wife, starts a business that makes her a millionaire.
Cast
- Lucille Ball as Jean Russell
- Patric Knowles as Denny Williams
- Donald Woods as Jeffrey Martin
- Frieda Inescort as Flora Barton-Williams
- Inez Courtney as Gwen Morrison
- Leona Maricle as Eve Harrington
- Frances Mercer as Patricia Wharton
- Whitney Bourne as Peggy Ponsby
- George Beranger as Cyril (as George Andre Beranger)
- Kay Sutton as Miss Whitman, Jean's Secretary
- Ann Evers as Lois Peabody
Reception
RKO's pre-release publicity claimed that the film was to be an "exposé of the beauty racket" but reviewers of the day concluded that it was a standard "romantic love triangle".[1]
Leonard Maltin has written favorably of the film, suggesting that the film offered an unusual feminist viewpoint for its time, and acknowledging that Ball delivered a strong performance.[2]
References
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Bibliography
- Jewell, Richard B. and Harbin, Vernon, The RKO Story, Octopus Books, London, 1982. Template:ISBN
- Maltin, Leonard, Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide, Signet Books, 1997. Template:ISBN
External links
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- 1939 films
- 1939 romantic drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American romantic drama films
- Films about businesspeople
- Films directed by Glenn Tryon
- Films scored by Roy Webb
- RKO Pictures films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American films
- English-language romantic drama films