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Beauty For Sale


Date: 1933
Type: Drama / Romance
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Producer: Lucien Hubbard

Comment/Synopsis

Three young women who work at an upmarket beauty parlour have designs on improving themselves. However their plans are not straight forward as one has an affair with an older man, one with a married and one gets pregnant. This is a good satire on the class system as still found in the 1930's, that is both entertaining and poignant at the same time as it explores a range of marital and extra-marital relationships. This is a gem of pre-code film making with good performances from Madge Evans and Una Merkle.

Actors


Madge EvansMadge Evans
Una MerkleUna Merkle
Florine Mckinney
Alice BradyAlice Brady
Otto KrugerOtto Kruger
Hedda HopperHedda Hopper
Isabel JewelIsabel Jewell
May RobsonMay Robson
Philip Holmes
Edward NugenEdward Nugen (1936)
Louise Carter
John Roche
Charles Grapewin

Oscars

None
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Beauty For Sale