American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1945 electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from an unknown manufacturer. It is a conversion of Exhibit Supply Company's 1940 game 'Attention,' a practice common among operators and small manufacturers who repurposed existing games rather than building wholly new machines.

As a single-player EM machine from the mid-1940s, American Beauty follows the mechanical conventions of its era: players use the ball shooter and machine tilt to influence a metal ball's path into scoring holes and lanes. Since it predates the invention of the flipper (introduced in 1947), the game does not offer players direct paddle control over the ball, relying instead on positioning, timing, and skillful nudging within the rules of the day.

Little specific documentation survives about this particular conversion's design or original operator, which is typical for machines from this transitional wartime period. Its main historical interest lies in its status as a rebadged version of an earlier title, illustrating how the pinball industry recycled game designs during the 1940s.