What Price Beauty?
1928 film by Tom Buckingham
- Malcolm Stuart Boylan
- Natacha Rambova
- Natacha Rambova
- S. George Ulmann
- Rudolph Valentino
- Nita Naldi
- Natacha Rambova
- Pierre Gendron
Production
company
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S. George Ullman
Release date
- January 18, 1928 (1928-01-18)[1]
- Silent
- English intertitles
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
An exotic vamp and a nice country girl compete over the manager of a beauty parlour.
Cast
- Nita Naldi as Rita Rinaldi
- Natacha Rambova
- Pierre Gendron as John Clay
- Virginia Pearson as Mary
- Dolores Johnson
- Sally Winters
- La Supervia
- Marilyn Newkirk
- Victor Potel
- Caroline Rankin
- Templar Saxe
- Leo White
- Rosalind Byrne
- Myrna Loy as Vamp
References
- ^ a b "What Price Beauty?". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ Leider p.54
Sources
Emily W. Leider. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011.
External links
- What Price Beauty? at IMDb
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Films directed by Tom Buckingham
- Laughing Gas (1920)
- Golf (1922)
- The Agent (1922)
- The Arizona Express (1924)
- The Cyclone Rider (1924)
- Troubles of a Bride (1924)
- Forbidden Cargo (1925)
- Ladies of Leisure (1926)
- What Price Beauty? (1928)
- Crashing Through (1928)
- Cock of the Air (1932)
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