Search for Beauty

Feb 2, 1934

1h 18m

★ 5.3

GET YOUNG and HEALTHY! Down on the health farm where Venus like girls and Tarzan like men show you how to live right!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)

Buster Crabbe

Barbara Hilton

Ida Lupino

Larry Williams

Robert Armstrong

Dan Healy

James Gleason

Sally Palmer

Toby Wing

Jean Strange

Gertrude Michael

Joe Garrett

Bradley Page

Rev. Rankin

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Miss Pettigrew

Nora Cecil

Mrs. Archibald Henderson-James

Virginia Hammond

Adolph Knockler

Eddie Gribbon

Caretaker

James B. 'Pop' Kenton

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