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Search for Beauty is a american film of genre Drama directed by Erle C. Kenton released in USA on 2 february 1934 with Buster Crabbe

Search for Beauty (1934)

Search for Beauty
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Released in USA 2 february 1934
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Horror,    Crime
Rating60% 3.0003653.0003653.0003653.0003653.000365

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!"

Actors

Buster Crabbe

(Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe))Ida Lupino

(Barbara Hilton)Robert Armstrong

(Larry Williams)James Gleason

(Dan Healy)Toby Wing

(Sally Palmer)
And :
Gertrude Michael
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Bradley Page
Eddie Gribbon
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