What Price Beauty?
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]
| What Price Beauty? | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tom Buckingham |
| Produced by | Natacha Rambova S. George Ulmann Rudolph Valentino |
| Written by | Malcolm Stuart Boylan Natacha Rambova |
| Starring | Nita Naldi Natacha Rambova Pierre Gendron |
| Cinematography | Devereaux Jennings |
Production company | S. George Ullman |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
The film's sets were designed by the art director William Cameron Menzies.
Premise
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
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References
- "What Price Beauty?". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- Leider p.54
Sources
Emily W. Leider. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011.
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