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'Search for Beauty' is a 1934 pre-Code dramedy film, with some musical Busby Berkeley-esque athletic sequences, directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino (the film was released shortly before Lupino's 16th birthday). They play a pair of lovers and aquatic champion Olympians (he a swimmer, she a diver) who become the face of a health magazine, which over their objections is turned into a "skin" rag.[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=89346 Search for Beauty], tcm.com, accessed October 12, 2010. Armstrong and Michael portray ex-cons with the 'scheme' (and both have designs to break up the loving couple for themselves), and Gleason is their cohort. In his first few scenes Crabbe promotes exercise: "Get off your (pause) 'feet' and get on them!"

Cast



in a publicity still for the film.

*Buster Crabbe as Don Jackson

*Ida Lupino as Barbara Hilton

*Robert Armstrong as Larry Williams

*James Gleason as Dan Healy, the 'publisher'

*Toby Wing as Sally Palmer, Barbara's cousin

*Gertrude Michael as Jean Strange

*Bradley Page as Joe Garrett

*Frank McGlynn, Sr. as Rev. Rankin

*Nora Cecil as Miss Pettigrew

*Virginia Hammond as Mrs. Archibald Henderson-James

*Eddie Gribbon as Adolph Knockler

*James B. 'Pop' Kenton as Caretaker

*Lynn Bari as Beauty Contest Entrant (uncredited)

*Maurice Costello as Health Acres Guest (uncredited)

*Joyzelle Joyner as Beauty Contest Entrant (uncredited)

*Ann Sheridan as Texas Beauty Winner (uncredited)

Notes



The magazine publishing company shown in the film has been interpreted as a parody of the publishing enterprises owned by Bernarr Macfadden at the time.

References



Sources



*Doherty, Thomas Patrick. 'Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934'. New York: Columbia University Press 1999.


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