The Great American Beauty Contest

1973TV Movie⏱️ 1h 14mUnrated

Drama

⭐ 6

IMDB Rating

140 votes

The integrity of a beauty contest is threatened by a scandal involving a judge, a former winner and one of the finalists.

Director

Robert Day

Writers

N/A

Stars

Eleanor Parker, Robert Cummings, Louis Jourdan

Release Date

February 13, 1973

Language

English

Country

United States

💬 5

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Eleanor Parker

as Peggy Lowery

Robert Cummings

as Dan Carson

Louis Jourdan

as Ralph Dupree

JoAnna Cameron

as Gloria Rockwell

Farrah Fawcett

as T.L. Dawson

Tracy Reed

as Pamela Parker

Kathrine Baumann

as Melinda Wilson

Susan Damante

as Angelique

Christopher Norris

as Miss Utah

Patricia Barry

as Kay Earnshaw

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Filming Location

Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production

ABC Circle Films, Spelling-Goldberg Productions

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🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

"I've never slept away from home before." .. "Sooner or later it happens to us all."

by moonspinner55 • 2015-09-26

5/10

"50 single girls show up in Los Angeles for the annual Miss American Beauty contest, overseen by a former winner (the implacable Eleanor Parker) and her version of a Bob Barker (Bob Cummings), both desperate to keep the proceedings honest. Spelling-Goldberg TV-movie for ABC portends to have some modern relevance amongst the standard fluff: Miss Oklahoma is really a feminist--planning to use her acceptance speech to shame the archaic institution of beauty pageants--while Miss New Jersey is "a Negro" with a race-chip on her shoulder. Unfortunately, the teleplay is more soap opera than i..."