Search for Beauty
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| Directed by | Erle C. Kenton |
| Produced by | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
| Screenplay by |
Claude Binyon David Boehm Frank Butler Sam Hellman Maurine Dallas Watkins |
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Buster Crabbe Ida Lupino Robert Armstorng James Gleason Toby Wing Gertrude Michael Bradley Page |
| Music by | John Leipold |
| Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck |
| Edited by | James Smith |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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!"
The magazine publishing company shown in the film has been interpreted as a parody of the publishing enterprises owned by Bernarr Macfadden at the time.
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