Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Buster Crabbe
- Don Jackson
- (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
James B. 'Pop' Kenton
- Caretaker
- (as 'Pop' Kenton)
Roscoe Karns
- Newspaper Reporter
- (scenes deleted)
Monya Andre
- Second Author
- (uncredited)
Stella Bailey
- New York Beauty Winner
- (uncredited)
William Bailey
- Cement Foreman
- (uncredited)
Malcolm Ball
- Georgia Talent Contestant
- (uncredited)
Lynn Bari
- Beauty Contestant Entrant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBuster Crabbe plays an Olympic swimmer in the film. Before entering acting, Crabbe was a two-time Olympian, a bronze medalist in 1928 and a gold medal winner in 1932.
- Crazy creditsWith the 30 winners in the International Beauty Contest
chosen from England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
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Goofy film about two Olympic athletes (Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe) who are hired to bring some respectability to a fitness magazine that is using sex as its major selling point.
People who want to see an example of some pre-Code raciness will find much to like about this movie. Its overt treatment of sex as something people actually like instead of something covert that must never be mentioned is by itself enough to make this movie stand apart from the more sanitized films of the succeeding decade. But beyond that, it revels in images of the barely dressed human body, male and female, and includes a shot of bare butts in a men's locker room, and a jaw dropper of a production number in which all of the women are wearing sheer athletic tops with their breasts and nipples clearly visible.
Funny enough, for all of its reputation now as being representative of a certain kind of moral looseness in early 30s films, the movie's attitude about sex is as pure as freshly fallen snow.
Grade: B
People who want to see an example of some pre-Code raciness will find much to like about this movie. Its overt treatment of sex as something people actually like instead of something covert that must never be mentioned is by itself enough to make this movie stand apart from the more sanitized films of the succeeding decade. But beyond that, it revels in images of the barely dressed human body, male and female, and includes a shot of bare butts in a men's locker room, and a jaw dropper of a production number in which all of the women are wearing sheer athletic tops with their breasts and nipples clearly visible.
Funny enough, for all of its reputation now as being representative of a certain kind of moral looseness in early 30s films, the movie's attitude about sex is as pure as freshly fallen snow.
Grade: B
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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