1955: The BUSINESS of BEAUTY | Special Enquiry | World of Work

1955: The BUSINESS of BEAUTY | Special Enquiry | World of Work | BBC Archive

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2 ай бұрын

The business of beauty was certainly more than skin deep in 1955, as Jean Metcalfe's report for Special Enquiry discovered.
From London's Elizabeth Arden salon, to the Yardley factory, with pitstops in the worlds of advertising, design and the movies, we get an extensive insight into the public's pampering and fashion regimes, and the industries that lie behind them.
00:03 Elizabeth Arden salon
03:23 Yardley factory
06:04 J Walter Thompson advertising agency
10:20 Elstree Studios during filming of Now and Forever
13:21 Interview with Janette Scott
15:10 Interview with Joyce Horton, a fan of Janette Scott
16:52 Hairdresser on people asking for movie stars' hairdos
Clip taken from Special Enquiry: The Business of Beauty, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 23 January, 1955.
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@effess8698 2 ай бұрын

Janette Scott- the actress interviewed in this clip- is the daughter of Thora Hird. Janette appeared in a number of films but retired when she married Mel Tormé in 1966. She's still with us, now aged 85. Thanks Wikipedia.

@bcasey3639 2 ай бұрын

She was great in School for Scoundrels with Terry Thomas , Alistair Sim and Ian Carmicheal.

@herrflick1244 2 ай бұрын

Just watched this week the day of the triffids as she played the part of a scientist in the lighthouse which got invaded by triffids and found seawater killed them

@lellytalks4296 2 ай бұрын

The women in the factory look so much more glamorous than I do on a night out!!

@petergivenbless900 2 ай бұрын

The legendary make-up artist Stuart Freeborn @12:00, he went on to create, amoungst other things, the ape-man costumes and articulated masks for '2001: A Space Odyssey' and sculpted Yoda for 'The Empire Strikes Back', which he later admitted was modeled on his own face!

@Okayletsg0 6 күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment, this is so interesting! :)

@neatodd 2 ай бұрын

An ordinary dinner party, the sort of occasion we all enjoy. The men are exchanging witty stories and, look at the women, aren't they pretty? Look at the way they laugh, they're delightful. But now the conversation turns to more serious matters....

@76ToneCrome 2 ай бұрын

Know your place.

@MichaelBosley 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if the government should return to the gold standard?

@Dan23_7 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha Harry Enfield. “Women and machinery should never mix” 😂

@AngelApprentice Ай бұрын

I do love fluffy kittens

@MichealSeaghdha 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating glimpse into a far more polite and gentle era when most people took a genuine pride in their appearance, speech and manners. I assume the old factory was Yardley's in Stratford.

@Undermarysmantleforever 2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful photo in front of the Vatican…next year will be a Jubilee year ,great clip .Thank you👏👏👏🌟

@heinkle1 2 ай бұрын

Very Phantom Thread

@76ToneCrome 2 ай бұрын

Scamming people since 1955.

@misst.e.a.187 2 ай бұрын

Only since 1955? I think you need to go much farther back in time

@misst.e.a.187 2 ай бұрын

10:06 Shepherd's Bush Green west side, by the Gaumont cinema and Shepherd's Empire (later BBC Theatre). The junction of Shepherd's Bush Road and Goldhawk Road is behind the bus. The 105 bus now the 95 and the 49 and 72 buses still run to this day.

@digitaldobbie 2 ай бұрын

Do they re-use that wax?

@hilaryepstein6013 2 ай бұрын

To this day I still don't know if the beauty industry is a big con but my mother used Camay soap and Ponds Cold Cream when she was young in the 1950s and never bought expensive creams. She had wonderful skin even in her 80s. Was she just lucky? Who knows.

@analogueman123456787 2 ай бұрын

'Good skin' is in the genes, and something your Mum likely inherited. Lucky lady. For the majority, beauty products are merely 'war-paint', and assist women to 'fill in the cracks' and make the best of what they've got.

@skyworm8006 2 ай бұрын

@@analogueman123456787 It's more so genes, stress, diet, and very importantly sun exposure. I don't expect messing with your skin or putting poisons on it (that's all these products, yes today too) is good for it. The beauty industry, even so-called skincare, is not aimed towards good skin and good general health. If it were then they'd put money into R&D and not marketing pseudoscience.

@fredo1070 2 ай бұрын

The beauty parlour resembles a bordello in a western.

@sebastianapollodelavega1445 2 ай бұрын

sweet xxxxxxxxxxxx

@DenkyManner 2 ай бұрын

"we women are often bewitched by pretty packaging" I was about to scoff until I remembered IT'S TRUE!

@HenryRaeburn367 2 ай бұрын

You can always tell this is for the wealthy upper classes they will use the monetary term guinea the pound £ are for the lower classes

@Jesus_Iced 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know that. Was that a common thing?

@andywatts8654 2 ай бұрын

The lower classes dealt mostly with shillings and pence, not pounds

@HenryRaeburn367 2 ай бұрын

@andywatts8654 The guinea lasted from 1663 until 1814. Your average working class wage would have been shillings and pennies. Pounds would have been in circulation but very rarely giving as wages, but this documentary was filmed in the 1950/ 60s, and you still have the upper classes using the guinea as a unit of currency the guinea was last in circulation in 1814 . You would not get a working class husband, tell his wife. My wages this week were 5 guineas he would tell her £5 / 5 shillings, so why are the upper classes using the term guineas? It's just to remind us who they are. You don't get the lower classes using that monetary term guinea it's pounds, shillings, and pence you cretIN

@HenryRaeburn367 2 ай бұрын

@Jesus_Iced the guinea was your original gold pound coin, the gold in the coin, its value would increase due to the gold market prices raising at one point it increased to 24 shillings, fluctuation gold prices but the upper classes would have a standard unit price at 21 shillings £1 one shillings doctors lawyers and the professional classes would get payed in guineas as their fee, a hundred guineas are= £105 but they would never say that to a client

@analogueman123456787 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Some enormous chips on shoulders on display here... 😄