{{short description|1941 film}} {{For|the Marianne Faithfull song|Dangerous Acquaintances}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = For Beauty's Sake | image = File:For Beauty's Sake.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Shepard Traube | producer = Darryl F. Zanuck | screenplay = Walter Bullock<br>Ethel Hill<br>Wanda Tuchock | starring = Ned Sparks<br>Marjorie Weaver<br>Ted North<br>Joan Davis<br>Pierre Watkin<br>Lenita Lane | music = David Buttolph | cinematography = Charles G. Clarke | editing = Nick DeMaggio | studio = 20th Century Fox | distributor = 20th Century Fox | released = {{Film date|1941|6|6}} | runtime = 61 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''For Beauty's Sake''''' is a 1941 American comedy mystery film directed by Shepard Traube (1907–1983)<ref name="nytimes-shepard-traube-76">{{Cite news |last=Fraser |first=C. Gerald |date=1983-07-25 |title=SHEPARD TRAUBE, 76, IS DEAD; STAGE PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/25/obituaries/shepard-traube-76-is-dead-stage-producer-and-director.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and written by Walter Bullock, Ethel Hill and Wanda Tuchock.<ref>Fetrow p.153</ref> The film stars Ned Sparks, Marjorie Weaver, Ted North, Joan Davis, Pierre Watkin and Lenita Lane. The film was released on June 6, 1941, by 20th Century Fox.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75320/for-beautys-sake |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127192129/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75320/for-beautys-sake |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |title=For Beauty's Sake (1941) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=2015-09-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/91939/For-Beauty-s-Sake/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927094912/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/91939/For-Beauty-s-Sake/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-09-27 |title=For-Beauty-s-Sake - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2015 |accessdate=2015-09-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=26704 |title=For Beauty's Sake |publisher=Afi.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-26}}</ref>
==Plot== A young astronomy professor Bertram Erasmus Dillsome is forced by the terms of his late aunt's will to take over the running of her beauty salon in order to gain his inheritance. However, with the assistance of one of his students who has developed a crush on him, he manages to expose a gang of criminals operation out of the salon who may have murder his aunt.
== Cast == *Ned Sparks as Jonathan B. Sweet *Marjorie Weaver as Dime Pringle *Ted North as Bertram Erasmus Dillsome *Joan Davis as Dottie Nickerson *Pierre Watkin as Middlesex *Lenita Lane as Dorothy Sawter *Richard Lane as Mr. Jackman *Lotus Long as Ann Kuo *Glenn Hunter as Rodney Blynn *Lois Wilson as Mrs. Lloyd Kennar *John Ellis as Lloyd Kennar *Olaf Hytten as Father McKinley *Tully Marshall as Julius H. Pringle *Phyllis Fraser as Julia *Isabel Jewell as Amy Devore *Nigel De Brulier as Brother *Janet Beecher as Miss Merton *Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Franklin Evans *Helena Phillips Evans as Mrs. Jellico
== References == {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Fetrow, Alan G. ''Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography''. McFarland, 1994.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0033617|For Beauty's Sake}}
Category:1941 films Category:20th Century Fox films Category:American comedy films Category:1941 comedy films Category:Films with screenplays by Wanda Tuchock Category:Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Category:American black-and-white films Category:1941 English-language films Category:1941 American films Category:Films set in New York City Category:English-language comedy films
{{1940s-US-comedy-film-stub}}