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Bookmark this pageThe Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Director: Frank Tashlin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The quintessential '50s rock film, containing legendary appearances from Fats Domino, the Platters, Little Richard and Gene Vincent among its seventeen numbers, though the greatest musical moment is perhaps Eddie Cochran belting out '20 Flight Rock'. The story is a fairly biting satire on the PR worlds of rock and advertising, with Ewell as a press agent and Mansfield as a dumb blonde who rockets to stardom after imitating a prison siren on a rock record. This is the film in which Tashlin made Mansfield hold two milk bottles next to her boobs for a momentary visual gag; and he was capable of even crueller humour, as the sequel Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? proved.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Tashlin
Producer: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Henry Jones, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 99 mins
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