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Beauty for Sale is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Boleslawski released in USA on 1 september 1933 with Madge Evans

Beauty for Sale (1933)

Beauty for Sale
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Released in USA 1 september 1933
Length 1h27
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating66% 3.340933.340933.340933.340933.34093

Beauty for Sale is a 1933 American Pre-Code film about the romantic entanglements of three beauty salon employees. It stars Madge Evans, Alice Brady, and Otto Kruger. It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin.

Synopsis

Small town girl Letty Lawson (Madge Evans) moves to New York City and lives in a boarding house run by Mrs. Merrick (May Robson). Eventually she asks her friend and Mrs. Merrick's daughter, Carol (Una Merkel), to get her a job at her workplace, an exclusive beauty salon owned by Madame Sonia Barton (Hedda Hopper). Though both Carol and her brother Bill (Edward J. Nugent), who is in love with her, warn her that it is not a fit place for a young woman of good character, Letty insists she knows what she is getting into.

Actors

Madge Evans

(Letty Lawson)
Alice Brady

(Henrietta Sherwood)
Otto Kruger

(Mr. Sherwood)
Una Merkel

(Carol Merrick)
May Robson

(Mrs. Merrick)
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