The Beauty Jungle

Shirley Freeman, a happy young brunette on holiday, suddenly finds herself the focal point of a human-interest story ‘manufactured’ by newspaperman Don Mackenzie and photographer Walter. Don encourages Shirley to enter a second-rate beauty contest. She loses, but the beauty business holds her in its spell. She leaves her home, job, and boyfriend and... More »

Shirley Freeman, a happy young brunette on holiday, suddenly finds herself the focal point of a human-interest story ‘manufactured’ by newspaperman Don Mackenzie and photographer Walter. Don encourages Shirley to enter a second-rate beauty contest. She loses, but the beauty business holds her in its spell. She leaves her home, job, and boyfriend and under Don’s management is transformed into a sizzling, glamorous blonde going from competition to competition and bigger and better rewards. But life becomes more and more complicated for Don. He falls hopelessly in love with his ‘creation’ to find out the new Shirley, whom ambition has made hard, greedy and ruthless, is incapable of returning is affection. Shirley goes from success to success. She meets playboy film star Rex Carrick and beauty contest promoter Armand, later becoming a challenger in the Miss Globe competition held in Nice. Determinedly she uses her sex in an attempt to influence the result. In the final scene of this fascinating expose the question is posed: Is the real ‘winner’ the girl who winds the title or the girl who is able to become an ordinary person again? Less «