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What Price Beauty?

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What Price Beauty?
Directed byTom Buckingham
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDevereaux Jennings
Production
company
S. George Ullman
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • January 18, 1928 (1928-01-18)[1]
CountryUnited States
Languages

What Price Beauty? is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Tom Buckingham and starring Nita Naldi, Natacha Rambova and Pierre Gendron. Shot in May 1925 but not released until January 1928,[1] the film features the future star Myrna Loy in a small role. Her performance attracted widespread interest, boosting her career.[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art director William Cameron Menzies.

Plot

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An exotic vamp and a nice country girl compete over the manager of a beauty parlour.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ a b "What Price Beauty?". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Leider p.54

Sources

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Emily W. Leider. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011.

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