The Girl Can't Help It
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1956
Duration:
99 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Henry Jones, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent
Songs:
Mel Leven, Tony Iavello, Bobby Troup
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