Constance Bennett " Daily Beauty Rituals " Women's Skin Care & Makeup Xd13954 (1937)
1937 · Short film · 5 min
Synopsis
This 1937 color film, in which Hollywood actress Constance Bennett “presents her daily beauty rituals” provides general tips for women’s skin care and makeup application in a plush and colorful setting (TRT 5:10). Bennet's most famous Hollywood hit was Topper, in which she starred opposite Cary Grant. Opening titles (0:06). A small glass clock sits on a nightstand (0:17). Pan to a woman in full hair and makeup tossing and turning in blue bed sheets (0:21). Constance Bennett rises from a bed with dual padded headboards and stretches her arms with a flourish. She greets us in a rose colored nightgown 0:37). Constance, still in makeup, sits at a mirror in a blue bedroom. She opens a jar of cold cream cleanser and produces a handkerchief. She applies cold cream to her face and discreetly mentions that it “doesn’t grow fuzz” (0:52). A maid in traditional dress with a white headpiece approaches our host from a doorway (1:17). They enter the bathroom. Constance applies a second layer of cream while the maid draws a bath, then wipes it away with a cloth (1:26). She adds a “complexion mask” which lightens her face. The maid announces the bath is ready (2:17). Constance, her back turned, undoes the sash of her nightgown. Wipe to Constance in the bath up to her shoulders. She addresses the camera, washing soap suds across her forearms (2:33). Wipe back to Constance returning to the vanity mirror. She sits, produces a hand mirror, and smooths her makeup, applying a “glow base” (3:05).…
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- Running time
- 5 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1937
- Constance Bennet
- Daily Beauty Rituals
- Women Skin Care
- Makeup
- Stock Footage