Lucille Ball
Jean Russell
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Beauty for the Asking: Directed by Glenn Tryon. With Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort. Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Glenn Tryon
- 1939-02-24
Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patric Knowles . Plot. Jean Russell is a beautician who is jilted by her boyfriend so he can marry an older but wealthy woman.
Beauty for the Asking Like every other starlet working in Hollywood in 1939, Lucille Ball screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. Her zany talent packed inside that fiddle-dee-dee character strikes modern audiences as an obvious impossibility, but for Ball that screen test was a ray of hope.
- Glenn Tryon, Harry Mancke
- Lucille Ball
Beauty for the Asking (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory.
When a beautician markets a new face cream, her agency obtains help from the wife of the man who once jilted her.
- Drama
The beautiful Lucille Ball and she was back in her salad days gets jilted by Patric Knowles in Beauty For The Asking. Our heroine is down but not out. She manages to market the tricks of the beautician trade into a cosmetic empire and she can buy and sell Knowles and Frieda Inescourt the rich woman Knowles did marry.
