Comedy

Contest Girl

ComedyDrama

On a seaside holiday, pretty Bristol typist Shirley meets Dan Mackenzie from her local paper. He persuades her that she has what it takes in the world of beauty contests, and so it proves. Ditching her predictable fiancé and having to leave home, Shirley moves to London to continuing success. Increasingly smitten by her, Dan reckons he should be more than just her manager, but this is not at all the way Shirley sees things.

Year

1966

Duration

1h 22m

IMDb

6.0

Trailer

Cast

Val Guest

Director

Ian Hendry

Don Mackenzie

Janette Scott

Shirley Freeman

Ronald Fraser

Walter Carey

Edmund Purdom

Rex Carrick

JC

Jean Claudio

Armand

Tommy Trinder

Charlie Dorton

Kay Walsh

Mrs. Freeman

Norman Bird

Mr. Freeman

Janina Faye

Elaine Freeman

David Weston

Harry

PA

Peter Ashmore

Lucius

Sidney James

Butlin Judge

Jacqueline Jones

Jean Watson

JW

Jackie White

Barbara Lawton

Jerry Desmonde

Swimming Pool M.C.

AT

Alan Taylor

T.V. Commentator

Eve Eden

Angela Boynton

Lionel Blair

Talk of Town Producer

RM

Robert Muller

Writer

Val Guest

Writer

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Comments

4 comments

youssef hossam pkMay 29, 2023

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Abi Nas❤️❤️Nov 16, 2022

The Beauty Jungle

WarutthaImNov 16, 2022

When this film was released beauty contests were very popular.Miss UK,Miss GB,Miss World and Miss Universe etc.This film initially sets out to expose the sleaze behind the glamour.Ian Hendry is a cynical journalist who plays Svengali to Janette Scott's Trilby.The problem is that rather like Dr Frankenstein having created a being he is unable to stop her going off on an eventual self destructive path.All well and good up to the point that Scott wins the Rose Of England contest.It seems as is the film looses interest in the sleaze and is seduced by the glamour.As a result the last three quarters of an hour pass very slowly and are rather boring.It is also rather difficult to accept the scene where Scott offers herself to Hendry who refuses because she doesn't love him.Rather out of character .The film is at least for its first hour an interesting view of a phenomenon which has now passed into social history.

GabiNov 16, 2022

I saw this film long back and liked it very much. This is an honest depiction about the ugliness behind beauty business. Late Ian Hendry is good and so is Janette Scott. The dark side of beauty business is vividly shown here, the middle class ambitions and its inability to take hard failure ultimately is wonderfully depicted here. Film also points a finger towards brutal journalistic trends which needs scapegoats or people who could be used as stories. It uses them and spits them away (like the case of leading lady of this picture). It is a wonder, why this film is not even heard of these days when so many fashion shows are taking place. This tells behind the scene truths about such beauty events and nothing much has changed. It also has a shattering end that will move you to tears. 7 out of 10.