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The Girl Can't Help It

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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

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Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

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. High-voltage, candy-colored camp, by comic maven Tashlin, which features some great early... 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]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Tom Ewell, Julie London, Henry Jones

Director: Frank Tashlin
Screenwriter: Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker
Producer: Frank Tashlin

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Sep 18, 1985

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A veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six.

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08/22/06
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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2/5

Not one of Tashlin's better efforts.

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08/11/06
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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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.

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08/08/06
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06/24/06
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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.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
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06/29/05
Emanuel Levy
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Wild combination of cartoonish farce with seminal rock performances. Those milk bottles!

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Tashlin demonstrated an innate knowledge of the capacties offered by the Cinescope canvas.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
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It's a great looking great sounding movie.

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Brad Laidman
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Tashlin's savage lampoon of American notions of success and fulfillment is hilarious and genuinely appealing.

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01/01/00
Don Druker
Chicago Reader
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