Beauty for the Asking
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Glenn Tryon Genres Drama, Black-and-white Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Art director Van Nest Polglase Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Doris Anderson , Paul Jarrico , Edmund L. Hartmann , Adele Buffington Release date February 24, 1939 (1939-02-24) Cast Lucille Ball (Jean Russell), Patric Knowles (Denny Williams), Donald Woods (Jeffrey Martin), Frieda Inescort (Flora Barton-Williams), Inez Courtney (Gwen Morrison)Similar movies The Spellbinder (1939) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patric Knowles.
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It tells the story of Jean Russell (Ball), who becomes romantically involved with a wealthy married man (Knowles) who later spurns her. She later invents a new facial cream, and with the financial backing of her former lover's wife (Frieda Inescort), starts a business that makes her a millionaire.
Reception
RKO's pre-release publicity claimed that the film was to be an "exposé of the beauty racket" but reviewers of the day concluded that it was a standard "romantic love triangle".
Recently Leonard Maltin has written favorably of the film, suggesting that the film offered an unusual feminist viewpoint for its time, and acknowledging that Ball delivered a strong performance.
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References
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