Picture above: Ian Hendry as Don Mackenzie in The Beauty Jungle (aka Contest Girl). Cutting from a 1964 magazine. The film also featured Jeanette Scott, Ronnie Fraser and Edward Purdom, with cameos by Lionel Blair, Sid James. Joe Brown and Stirling Moss!

Video: Original trailer for The Beauty Jungle (1964)

Picture: Ian Hendry portrait from a c.1965 edition of Photoplay Magazine.

Picture: Reverse side of the main feature photograph. Advertisement for Billy Wilders romantic comedy ‘Irma La Douce’, with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Initially released in 1963, it is based on the 1956 French stage musical Irma La Douce by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort.

Until next time,

Neil Hendry
Editor, Official Website of Ian Hendry

Further Reading

A detailed account of the life and work of Ian Hendry in the new biography:

Read: ‘Send in the Clowns – The Yo Yo Life Of Ian Hendry’ by Gabriel Hershman

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