Search for Beauty (1934)

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78 min - Comedy | Crime | Drama - 2 February 1934 (USA)

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Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

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Credited cast:
	Buster Crabbe	...	Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
	Ida Lupino	...	Barbara Hilton
	Robert Armstrong	...	Larry Williams
	James Gleason	...	Dan Healy
	Toby Wing	...	Sally Palmer
	Gertrude Michael	...	Jean Strange
	Bradley Page	...	Joe Garrett
	Frank McGlynn Sr.	...	Rev. Rankin
	Nora Cecil	...	Miss Pettigrew
	Virginia Hammond	...	Mrs. Archibald Henderson-James
	Eddie Gribbon	...	Adolph Knockler
	James B. 'Pop' Kenton	...	Caretaker (as 'Pop' Kenton)
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	Roscoe Karns	...	Newspaper Reporter (scenes deleted)

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Three shady characters - Larry, Jean, and Dan - want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. They hire two recent Olympic champions as editors to give legitimacy: Barbara Hilton, an English diver, and Don Jackson, a U.S. swimmer. When Jackson and Hilton object to the magazine's contents, they send him on a worldwide search for beauty, for youthful paragons of fitness. When Barbara and Don want out of the partnership to start their own fitness farm, the trio hatches a plan to bilk the kids. Can Barbara and Don avoid being conned or will a femme fatale undo their partnership? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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USA

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English

Release Date:

2 February 1934 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Campeões Olímpicos See more »

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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78 min

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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

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Black and White

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1.37 : 1

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One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. See more »

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