The Beauty Jungle
| The Beauty Jungle | |
|---|---|
 Film Poster | |
| Directed by | Val Guest |
| Produced by | Val Guest |
| Written by |
Val Guest Robert Muller |
| Starring |
Ian Hendry Janette Scott Edmund Purdom |
| Music by | Laurie Johnson |
| Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
| Edited by | Bill Lenny |
| Distributed by | Continental Distributing |
Release date | 25 August 1964 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Beauty Jungle (also known as Contest Girl) is a 1964 British film directed by Val Guest.
Plot
While on a seaside holiday a young typist Shirley Freeman (Janette Scott) is persuaded by a local journalist to enter a beauty contest. When she wins, she decides to give up her previous career and life and take up entering the contests full-time.
Shirley goes on to win the "Rose of England" contest. She is then entered in the "Miss Globe" contest but she comes only 6th despite naively sleeping with one of the male judges the night before the contest. Disillusioned with the beauty profession she stops entering beauty contests completely.
Later on, after being asked to judge a beauty contest in the UK, she sees that her younger sister has entered the contest and just immediately walks away completely from the beauty profession and all of its hypocrisy and sordid publicity stunts.
Cast
- Ian Hendry[1] as Don Mackenzie
- Janette Scott as Shirley Freeman
- Ronald Fraser as Walter Carey
- Edmund Purdom as Rex Carrick
- Jean Claudio as Armand
- Kay Walsh as Mrs. Freeman
- Tommy Trinder as Charlie Dorton
- Norman Bird as Mr. Freeman
- Janina Faye as Elaine
- Aliza Gur as Miss Perù
- David Weston as Harry
- Peter Ashmore as Lucius
- Sid James as Butlin Judge (as "Sydney James")
- Jacqueline Jones as Jean Watson
- Jackie White as Barbara Lawton
- Jerry Desmonde as Swimming Pool MC
- Alan Taylor as TV Commentator
- Eve Eden as Angela Boynton
- Lionel Blair as Talk of the Town Producer
- Francis Matthews as Taylor
- Nikki Peters as Cora
- Margaret Nolan as Caroline
- Paul Carpenter as American Tourist
- Donald Hewlett as Advertising Man
- Former Miss World Rosemarie Frankland makes her screen debut in a guest appearance.
- Norman Hartnell, Lydia Russell, Duchess of Bedford, Stirling Moss, Linda Christian, and Joe Brown appear as themselves judging the Rose of England at the Talk of the Town.
Production
Much of the early footage in the film was shot at Weston-super-Mare (including the now-demolished lido), Butlins Bognor Regis[2] and the Redcliffe area of Bristol.[3]
References
- ↑ "Official Website of Ian Hendry". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ↑ "IMDB". Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ↑ http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/reelstreets-films?task=view&id=57&film_ref=beauty_jungle,_the_-_orphan