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Beauty for the Asking

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Jean Russell is a beautician who is jilted by her boyfriend so he can marry an older but wealthy woman. Russell invents a new facial cream, and with the financial backing of her former boyfriend's wife, starts a business that makes her a millionaire.
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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".
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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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Glenn Tryon
Doris Anderson
Paul Jarrico
Edmund L. Hartmann
Grace Norton
Adele Buffington
B. P. Fineman
Lucille Ball
Patric Knowles
Donald Woods
Frieda Inescort
Frank Redman
George Crone
Roy Webb
RKO Pictures
film
drama
RKO Pictures
Lucille Ball
Patric Knowles
Lucille Ball
Patric Knowles
Donald Woods
Frieda Inescort
Inez Courtney
Frances Mercer
Whitney Bourne
George Beranger
Kay Sutton

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