Beauty for Sale

Beauty for Sale is a 1933 American PreCode film about the romantic entanglements of three beauty salon employees. It stars Madge Evans, Alice Brady, and Otto Kruger. It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin.

After proving herself, Letty is sent on a house call to attend to spoiled, scatterbrained, chatty Mrs. Smallwood Alice Brady. When she leaves, she discovers her hat has been chewed up by Mrs. Smallwoods Pekingese. Lawyer Mr. Smallwood Otto Kruger returns home and buys her an expensive replacement. By chance, she meets him again when they both seek shelter from a rainstorm in the same place. Smallwood is delighted when a fear of lightning makes Letty reflexively seek the comfort of his arms several times. They start seeing each other, though nothing very improper occurs.Meanwhile, Carol has a rich, older, indulgent boyfriend, Freddy Gordon Charley Grapewin, while Jane, another salon employee, is secretly seeing Burt Phillips Holmes, Madame Sonias mining engineer son. ........

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