Film Record: Be Beautiful?

Identifier:

• 2463.0008 (Source: oldfilm.org)

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Cyrus Pinkham

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Northeast Historic Film list of titled amateur works

Description:

"Dramatic short of a frumpy woman's dream of the alternate course her life might take were she a beauty." oldfilm.org

Resources:

Part of the Cyrus Pinkham Collection held by Northeast Historic Film

Discussed by Christopher Castiglia & Christopher Reed, “Not at Home Movies,” in Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon (eds.), Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, 2017.

Subjects:

•           Dreams
•           Imagination
•      Fashion models

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Repository:

Cyrus Pinkham Collection, Northeast Historic Film

Viewing Notes:

"Cyrus Pinkham Presents Peggy Smith in Be Beautiful? Screenplay by Cyrus Pinkham, David Houck, Peggy Smith. Titles by Peter Schuman." oldfilm.org

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