Search for Beauty
GET YOUNG and HEALTHY! Down on the health farm where Venus like girls and Tarzan like men show you how to live right!
1934 · 1h 18m · Approved
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Erle C. Kenton
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Search for Beauty
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.
Director and cast
- Erle C. Kenton Director
- Buster Crabbe as Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
- Ida Lupino as Barbara Hilton
- Robert Armstrong as Larry Williams
- James Gleason as Dan Healy
- Toby Wing as Sally Palmer
- Gertrude Michael as Jean Strange
- Bradley Page as Joe Garrett
- Frank McGlynn Sr. as Rev. Rankin
- Nora Cecil as Miss Pettigrew
- Virginia Hammond Cast
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