Beauty Parlor

Beauty Parlor

7.5IMDb Score
Released:1932-06-15
Duration:64 min
Director:Richard Thorpe
Actors:Barbara Kent, John Harron, Joyce Compton, Wheeler Oakman, Dorothy Revier
Production:Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation

Overview:

Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.

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