Le rythme est tel, que l’artiste doit avoir un sacré coup de crayon pour croquer les poses. A moins que ces études de nus soient un prétexte pour échapper à la censure ! Pour éviter la censure, la caméra et le modèle doivent rester immobiles. Ce plateau-tournant est un système ingénieux pour présenter les nus sous toutes leurs coutures.
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
Lorsque son petit ami, Jimmy, oublie l'un de leurs rendez-vous, Tessie McGuire se rend à une fête chez Robert Brandt. Elle y fera forte impression.
Un peintre celebre et son modele prefere, Michael, entretiennent des relations ambigues.
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."
Sur la plaque de Svengali, il est indiqué professeur de musique et chef d'orchestre. Avec son assistant Gecko, il se donne des airs de compositeur et cherche fortune auprès des dames que son boniment impressionne. Il a convaincu l'une de ses clientes, Madame Orline, de quitter son mari pour venir avec lui. Après un cours de chant qui plaide pour la surdité, elle lui révèle qu'elle a quitté son mari pour lui, sans pension. Alors, il la repousse. Elle part, épouvantée et le lendemain la nouvelle tombe : Madame Orline s'est jetée dans la rivière voisine.
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
Document rare sur le costumier Travis Banton, qui a créé le glamour et l'élégance de nombreuses stars des studios Paramount dans les années 1930, comme Carole Lombard et Marlene Dietrich. Les coulisses du studio en 1935, avec bien évidemment un coup de projecteur sur les tenues de Marlene pour The Devil Is a Woman, avec des outtakes signées Josef von Sternberg.
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
assistant de tapissier Irene O'Dare rencontre riche Don Marshall alors qu'elle est la mesure de chaises pour Mme Herman Vincent dans sa propriété Long Island. Charmé par la jeune fille, Don anonyme achète Mme Lucy, une boutique exclusive de Manhattan, et demande gestionnaire nouvellement embauché M. Smith à offrir Irene un emploi comme un modèle. Elle attire bientôt l'attention de socialite Bob Vincent, dont la mère est l'hôte d'une balle à la demeure familiale. Afin de promouvoir la ligne de robe de Mme Lucy, M. Smith organise pour ses modèles qui seront invités à la soirée.
Le farfelu Professeur Gibbs invente une machine qui rend invisible. Il cherche un cobaye et trouve Kitty Carroll, une jolie mannequin, qui pense que devenir invisible l'aidera dans la vie. Les complications arrivent lorsque trois bandits volent la machine pour l'utiliser contre leur boss. Mais leur butin sera bien difficile à préserver face à la détermination de la femme Invisible.
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro