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The Beauty Jungle is a British film of genre Drama directed by Val Guest released in USA on 1 may 1966 with Ian Hendry
The Beauty Jungle (1964)
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Add to a movie listThe Beauty Jungle (also known as Contest Girl) is a 1964 British film directed by Val Guest.
Synopsis
While on a seaside holiday a young typist is persuaded by a local journalist to enter a beauty contest. When she wins, she decides to give up her previous career and life and take up entering the contests full-time.Actors
Ian Hendry
(Don Mackenzie)
Janette Scott
(Shirley Freeman)
Edmund Purdom
(Rex Carrick)
Ronald Fraser
(Walter Carey)
Jean Claudio
(Roger Armand)
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