Beauty Parlor
★ 7.5 · 1932 · 64m · Drama · Romance
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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