Paramount Pictures photograph of Chief Guata Mozen with Brian Norman and Gwen Munro

SPG/216

fonds

1933

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9651803

1 photograph - black and white - 25.7 x 20.3 cm

The 'Search for Beauty' was a talent competition held by Paramount Pictures in 1933 with the winners to appear in the Hollywood film of the same name. Contestants were sought across eight countries, and in Australia the contest was open to single men and women between the ages of 17 and 30.

Reference:
Trove. "Search for beauty." The Daily Telegraph, 12 May 1933. Accessed 24 September 2020. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article246241095

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Title devised by cataloguer from inscription

‘Unique weapon: Chief Guata Mozen, one of the few remaining Indians of the Pueblo Aztec trib[e] that originally owned Catalina Island, shows Gwen Munro and Brian Norman, winners of Paramount’s “Search for Beauty” contest in Australia, a tomahawk made of calves’ horns and filled with metal, during their visit to the island’ -- typescript label on reverse
Paramount Pictures Sydney stamp on reverse

Date from contemporary newspaper reports about the 'Search for Beauty' competition