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is the film that Paramount manufactured as the climax of an international exploitation stunt in which thirty young men and women from various parts of the world received a free trip to Hollywood and an opportunity to get into one picture. The result is a tribute to the studio's ingenuity but a less
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agreed: "Story is just so much applesauce ... Miss Lupino, to save her kid cousin from the clutches of a roomful of evil-minded stews, does a snakehips atop a table. She didn't learn that in England."
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champions and a romantic couple who become the face of a sleazy health magazine. A pair of ex-cons team with the magazine's publisher to bring them down.
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Some have considered the magazine publishing company depicted in the film to be a parody of the publishing enterprises owned by
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sponsored a worldwide beauty contest. One of the winners, who made her first appearance in the film, was
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Any Resemblance to Actual Persons: The Real People Behind 400+ Fictional Movie Characters
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934
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film with some musical athletic sequences in the style of
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Erle C. Kenton
Claude Binyon
David Boehm
Frank Butler
Maurine Dallas Watkins
E. Lloyd Sheldon
Buster Crabbe
Ida Lupino
Robert Armstrong
James Gleason
Toby Wing
Gertrude Michael
Harry Fischbeck
James Smith
John Leipold
Paramount Pictures
pre-Code
dramedy
Busby Berkeley
Erle C. Kenton
Buster Crabbe
Ida Lupino
Olympic

Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe
Ida Lupino
Robert Armstrong
James Gleason

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