Drop Dead Gorgeous

Lona Williams 1999

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157503/

A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.

	DROP DEAD GORGEOUS


	FADE IN:

	EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - MINNESOTA - DAY

	Vintage black and white stock footage of some farms and 
	farmhouses.

								DISSOLVE TO:

	EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAY

	Color footage of cotton fields passing by.  We FREEZE and

								FADE TO BLACK.

	TITLE WIPES IN:

			1995 MARKED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

			OF THE NATION'S OLDEST BEAUTY CONTEST...

	THE SARAH ROSE COSMETICS AMERICAN TEEN PRINCESS PAGEANT

			A DOCUMENTARY FILM CREW WAS SENT TO 

				A SMALL TOWN IN MINNESOTA 

				TO COMMEMORATE THIS OCCASSION.

	INT. PAGEANT AUDITORIUM - MOUNT ROSE - DAY

	Vintage blue-toned stock footage of a teenage beauty 
	pageant contestant.  LEGS WIPE IN.

				MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER (O.S.)
		Sarah Rose knows you're a beautiful 
		person....

	Blue-toned stock footage of a long row of beauty pageant 
	contestants on stage.

				MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER (cont'd)
		Sarah Rose knows you have an unusual 
		talent.  Sarah Rose knows you're a 
		teenage girl.

	Blue-toned stock footage of the row of contestants 
	parading down some steps from the stage as CAMERA TILTS 
	DOWN.

				MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER (cont'd)
		Mmm, and she definitely knows that you 
		are ready for the ultimate teen 
		glamour.

	ROUSING PATRIOTIC MUSIC.  FAST PACED CUTS feature SMILING 
	TEENAGE CONTESTANTS dancing and waving American flags.  
	APPLAUSE!

				MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER 
				(cont'd)
		The American Teen Princess Pageant.