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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mansfield's first starring role is as the outrageously voluptuous but tone-deaf girlfriend of a retired racketeer. He hires a talent agent to transform her into a movie star and they fall in love.... Mansfield's first starring role is as the outrageously voluptuous but tone-deaf girlfriend of a retired racketeer. He hires a talent agent to transform her into a movie star and they fall in love. High-voltage, candy-colored camp, by comic maven Tashlin, which features some great early rock-and-roll performances from the Platters, Little Richard, and Fats Domino. [More]
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Tom Ewell, Julie London
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Tom Ewell, Julie London, Henry Jones, John Emery, Ray Anthony, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Platters
Director: Frank Tashlin
Director: Frank Tashlin
Screenwriter: Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker
Producer: Frank Tashlin
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Reviews for The Girl Can't Help It
A veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six.
Years before Kenneth Anger, Frank Tashlin located the decadent Babylon in Hollywood and found it not that different from the splashy Looney Tunes bonanzas he used to fashion during his salad days as an animator.
Sure, the scenery is splashy and sporty in color and CinemaScope. But the show is as meager and witless as a cheap pin-up magazine joke.
Wild combination of cartoonish farce with seminal rock performances. Those milk bottles!
Tashlin demonstrated an innate knowledge of the capacties offered by the Cinescope canvas.
Tashlin's savage lampoon of American notions of success and fulfillment is hilarious and genuinely appealing.
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