Complete credited cast: | |||
Lucille Ball | ... | Jean Russell | |
Patric Knowles | ... | Denny Williams | |
Donald Woods | ... | Jeffrey Martin | |
Frieda Inescort | ... | Flora Barton-Williams | |
Inez Courtney | ... | Gwen Morrison | |
Leona Maricle | ... | Eve Harrington | |
Frances Mercer | ... | Patricia Wharton | |
Whitney Bourne | ... | Peggy Ponsby | |
George Beranger | ... | Cyril (as George Andre Beranger) | |
Kay Sutton | ... | Miss Whitman | |
Ann Evers | ... | Lois Peabody |
Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he sends a sample of the product to 12 selected rich women. Only one woman invests in the business and Jean is happy until she learns that it is Flora - but she takes the money. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora. So Jean and Flora send him to California for six weeks to open the West Coast branch of Jeanne Varelle. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
The beautiful Lucille Ball and she was back in her salad days gets jilted by Patric Knowles in Beauty For The Asking. Our heroine is down but not out. She manages to market the tricks of the beautician trade into a cosmetic empire and she can buy and sell Knowles and Frieda Inescourt the rich woman Knowles did marry.
Lucy does well in this role which has some comic and dramatic elements. But Knowles really comes out best in this story. Knowles was never a lead, he's probably best known as Will Scarlett in the Errol Flynn Robin Hood film. But he could occasionally be a villain and he does excel here.
Donald Woods is here, always reliable as the second lead. But he's always kind of bland and he really isn't given much to work with.
Lucille Ball fans should like this.