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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.[1] 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!"

Search for Beauty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Erle C. Kenton
Screenplay by	Claude Binyon David Boehm Frank Butler Sam Hellman Maurine Dallas Watkins
Produced by	E. Lloyd Sheldon
Starring	Buster Crabbe Ida Lupino Robert Armstrong James Gleason Toby Wing Gertrude Michael
Cinematography	Harry Fischbeck
Edited by	James Smith
Music by	John Leipold
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 2, 1934 (1934-02-02)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cast

• 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. ISBN 0-231-11094-4

External links

• Search for Beauty at IMDb

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