The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 3
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The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that is) in The Girl Can't Help It. Much of the film is dominated by Edmond O'Brien as mob boss Murdock, who while serving a term in federal prison becomes a singing sensation with his hit tune "Rock Around the Rock Pile." Once he's sprung, Murdock hires impoverished agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell), not to promote his own career, but to turn his curvaceous lady friend Jerri Jordan
Jan 1, 1956 Wide
Aug 8, 2006
Cast
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Tom Ewell
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Jayne Mansfield
Jerri Jordan -
Edmond O'Brien
Marty Murdock -
Julie London
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Henry Jones
Mousie -
Ray Anthony
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John Emery
Wheeler -
Barry J. Gordon
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Juanita Moore
Hilda -
Fats Domino
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Eddie Fontaine
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Abbey Lincoln
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Johnny Olenn
Himself -
Nino Tempo
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Eddie Cochran
Himself -
The Chuckles
Themselves -
Gene Vincent & His Blue C...
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Little Richard
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The Treniers
Themselves -
The Platters
Themselves
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
A veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six.
Top CriticSure, 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.
Tashlin's savage lampoon of American notions of success and fulfillment is hilarious and genuinely appealing.
If Tashlin had had the nerve, he would have romantically paired Jayne Mansfield with Little Richard and set race relations in the United States forward by about thirty years.
A sweet little fifties gem that should be viewed for the endearing tale and of course, who doesn't love Ms. Mansfield?...
A pungent satire on the worlds of PR and rock music.
Not one of Tashlin's better efforts.
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.
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.
It's a great looking great sounding movie.
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Foreign Titles
- The Girl Can't Help It (DE)
- The Girl Can't Help It (UK)
