Search for Beauty

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. 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. 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!"

Contents

• Search for beauty
• The search for beauty on sleeve as beauty 1932
• Cast
• References

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)