Beauty for the Asking Movie Review 1939

It sounds like a workable Lucille Ball vehicle--a beautician develops a bestselling skin cream--and even the title sounds like something you'd like to love Lucy in. But somehow the numerous plot implausibilities managed to get by the story's five writers, and the idea of a jilted woman making millions while being financed by her ex's wife just doesn't fly (perhaps it was an idea ahead of its time). Die-hard Lucy fans may find this interesting.

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Available on VHS
Running time 68 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Wonder Women

Cast

Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort, Frances Mercer

Director

Glenn Tryon

Producer

B.P. Fineman, RKO