The Beauty Jungle
- 1964 film
Comedy drama following a young woman who falls into the world of beauty contests. Stars Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom, Jean Claudio and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1964
- Stars
- Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom, Jean Claudio, Kay Walsh, Norman Bird, Janina Faye and more
- Writers
- Robert Muller and Val Guest
- Director
- Val Guest
- Producers
- Val Guest, Earl St. John and Frank Sherwin Green
- Company
Enjoying a summer holiday in Weston-super-Mare, 20-year old beauty Shirley Freeman is spotted by a newspaper reporter, Don Mackenzie, who encourages her to enter a beauty contest.
When she wins Shirley finds herself intrigued by this new world but returns to her regular secretarial work. Don, however, is convinced he's found a winner: a great story that could run and run of a local girl and natural beauty. Gradually he convinces her to enter a bigger competition, which she ranks tantalisingly highly in, and learns a lot more about the possibilities of professional beauty contestants from some of the other girls.
Having an eye for just the right kind of publicity and a knack for swaying the public mood, Don steers his new charge - in the guise of her professional manager - through a series of bigger contests until she is crowned Rose of England, and with it secures entry to the top-rating international competition, Miss Globe.
However, Don is falling in love with Shirley, and fast; meanwhile, she's got a taste of success and the high life. With lucrative national contracts secured and global fame within grasp, the stakes keep on raising - increasingly, she'll do anything to win! Can the story end happily for both parties - or indeed, either of them?
Additional details
- UK certificate
- A
- Duration
- 114 minutes
- UK release
- Tuesday 25th August 1964
- Distributors
- Also known as
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- Contest Girl
- 36-22-36 (Working title)
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Saturday 18th December 2021 at 11:05pm on TPTV
- Sunday 22nd November 2020 at 11:45pm on TPTV
- Thursday 16th July 2020 at 8:00pm on TPTV
Recording details
- Pinewood Studios
- Weston-super-Mare and Monaco - Locations