Ever Since Venus (1944)
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue.
- Released
- 1944-09-14
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Music
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Arthur Dreifuss, McElbert Moore, Arthur Dreifuss
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Ina Ray Hutton as Ina Ray Hutton
- Hugh Herbert as P.G. Grimble
- Ann Savage as Janet Wilson
- Billy Gilbert as Tiny Lewis
- Glenda Farrell as Babs Cartwright
- Ross Hunter as Bradley Miller
- Alan Mowbray as J. Webster Hackett
- Marjorie Gateson as Maude Hackett
- Thurston Hall as Edgar Pomeroy
- Fritz Feld as Michele
- Jack Carr as Customer (uncredited)
- Byron Foulger as Henley, the Druggist (uncredited)