The Beauty Jungle
Appearance
The Beauty Jungle | |
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Directed by | Val Guest |
Written by | Val Guest Robert Muller |
Produced by | Val Guest |
Starring | Ian Hendry Janette Scott Edmund Purdom Sid James |
Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
Edited by | Bill Lenny |
Music by | Laurie Johnson |
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 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.
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
- Norman Bird as Mr. Freeman
- Janina Faye as Elaine
- Tommy Trinder as Charlie Dorton
- David Weston as Harry
- Peter Ashmore as Lucius
- Sid James as 'Butlin' Judge
- 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
- 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.
References
- ^ "Official Website of Ian Hendry". Retrieved 6 July 2013.