Contest Girl
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Val Guest
Ian Hendry
Janette Scott
Ronald Fraser
Edmund Purdom
Jean Claudio
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Shirley Freeman, a typist, is vacationing at the beach when she is approached by newspaper reporter Don Mackenzie and persuaded to enter a beauty contest. Don and his photographer friend, Walter, write a newspaper article on Shirley with pin-up pictures. Shirley's parents and her boyfriend, Harry, express their disapproval of her activities, but Shirley decides to pursue her new career. After winning the "Rose of England" contest, Shirley becomes a professional beauty contestant. Don, her promoter, has fallen in love with Shirley, but she does not return his attentions. When movie actor Rex Carrick also falls in love with her, he tries to persuade Shirley to quit the beauty business. Instead, Shirley becomes more obsessed with fame and goes on to enter the "Miss Globe" contest in southern France and to seduce one of the organizers in hopes of winning. Miss Peru, who also seduced a contest organizer, is declared the winner, however. Greatly disillusioned, Shirley returns to England, where her participation in beauty contests is limited to judging. One day Shirley recognizes her younger sister, Elaine, as one of the contestants and panics as she recalls her own experiences. She flees from her judge's chair, and runs into Don, who seems to understand her reaction.
Director
Val Guest
Cast
Ian Hendry
Janette Scott
Ronald Fraser
Edmund Purdom
Jean Claudio
Kay Walsh
Norman Bird
Janina Faye
Tommy Trinder
David Weston
Francis Matthews
Jerry Desmonde
Peter Ashmore
Jacqueline Jones
Jackie White
Leila Williams
Paul Carpenter
Henry Mccarthy
Raymond Young
Marianne Stone
Sylvia Steel
Eve Eden
Jacqueline Wallis
Margaret Nolan
Nicki Peters
Linda Christian
Alizia Gur
Arlette Dobson
Margaret Bristow
Barbara Von Der Heyde
Yuriko Nakahara
Gillian French
Donna Pearson
Rosemarie Frankland
Ting Ling
Vera Novac
Shirley Hadler
Kathy Highland
Gloria Wenlock
Julie Devonshire
Jackie Durham
Sandy Sarjeant
Sidney James
Stirling Moss
Duchess Of Bedford
Joe Brown
Lionel Blair
Norman Hartnell
Crew
Roy Baird
Ken Cameron
Maurice Carter
Biddy Chrystal
Beatrice Dawson
Louis Fleury
Arthur Grant
Frank Sherwin Green
Val Guest
Val Guest
Claude Hitchcock
Laurie Johnson
Bill Lenny
Robert Lynn
Robert Muller
Tony Sforzini
James Shields
Earl St. John
Daniel Wronecki
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed on the Riviera, in Monaco, Nice, Cannes, and Monte Carlo. Opened in London in September 1964 as The Beauty Jungle; running time: 114 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 1966
CinemaScope
Released in United States Spring May 1966
