Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Beauty on Parade
Beauty on Parade

Beauty on Parade

Watch scores of lovelies pitch their curves for the beauty crown!

Genres

Drama

OverView

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

66 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

04 May 1950

Country

United States of America

Cast

Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton

Gil McRoberts

Ruth Warrick

Ruth Warrick

Marian Medford

Lola Albright

Lola Albright

Kay Woodstock

John Ridgely

John Ridgely

Jeffrey Woodstock

Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke

Gloria Barton

Wally Vernon

Wally Vernon

Sam Short

Jimmy Lloyd

Jimmy Lloyd

Johnny Fennell

Donna Gibson

Donna Gibson

Mona Booker

Frank Sully

Frank Sully

Murph

Robert C. Hasha

Robert C. Hasha

Walker

Lillian Bronson

Lillian Bronson

Mrs. Enfield-Hyphen-Hatch

Susanne Rosser

Susanne Rosser

Minneapolis Minnesota Contestant

Josette Deegan

Josette Deegan

Detroit Michigan Contestant

Similar Movies

5.3

Night of Evil

January 1962 •English

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-convict.

7.7

Little Miss Sunshine

July 2006 •English

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

0.0

She Wanted a Millionaire

February 1932 •English

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.

6.1

Dreamland

January 2006 •English

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

6.2

The Entertainer

July 1960 •English

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

7.2

Miss

October 2020 •French

A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

5.7

Miss India America

March 2016 •English

Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.

6.6

Miss Juneteenth

September 2020 •English

Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.

6.8

Dumplin'

December 2018 •English

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

5.0

No Contest

March 1995 •English

A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.

6.0

Miss Arizona

June 2018 •English

A former pageant queen embarks on an all-night adventure with four unlikely friends she meets at a women's shelter.

0.0

Miss

January 1986 •

Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.

6.0

Miss Blue Jeans

August 2012 •Finnish

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

5.3

The Helen Morgan Story

October 1957 •English

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

6.0

Iris

July 2017 •Portuguese

During the war of the Portuguese overseas colonies, Íris Maria, an 18-year-old Portuguese girl born on a small island in Mozambique won the titles of Miss Mozambique and Miss Portugal 1972. This is her story.

6.4

Misbehaviour

March 2020 •English

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

3.0

Nudist Paradise

January 1959 •English

An American art student in England falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman. It turns out that she's a nudist, and in spite of his misgivings, he decides to join her at her nudist camp.

5.3

Juke Joint

January 1947 •English

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

6.6

Die Beautiful

December 2016 •Tagalog

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

6.5

Nightmare in Columbia County

December 1991 •English

The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.