
Frank Tashlin
Highest Rated: 100% The Paleface (1948)
Lowest Rated: 14% Caprice (1967)
Birthday: Feb 19, 1913
Birthplace: Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
Former cartoonist who entered features as a comedy writer ("The Paleface" 1948, etc.) and turned to directing with "The First Time" (1952), bringing his exuberant, exhilarating comic-strip style with him. Besides his eight films with the appropriately cast Jerry Lewis, Tashlin's name is chiefly connected with Jayne Mansfield, whose only notable films--"The Girl Can't Help It" (1955) and the brilliant satire of the advertising business, "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1956)--he engineered.
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Filmography
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No Score Yet | 70% | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Screenwriter | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 72% | The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell | Director | - | 1968 |
14% | 60% | Caprice | Director | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 35% | The Alphabet Murders | Director | - | 1966 |
57% | 74% | The Glass Bottom Boat | Director | - | 1966 |
60% | 68% | The Disorderly Orderly |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1964 |
57% | 65% | Who's Minding the Store? | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 43% | The Man From the Diner's Club | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 62% | It's Only Money | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Bachelor Flat | Director | - | 1961 |
60% | 65% | Cinderfella |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Say One for Me |
Director, Producer |
- | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Geisha Boy |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1958 |
63% | 82% | Rock-a-Bye Baby | Director | - | 1958 |
87% | 75% | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? |
Director, Producer |
- | 1957 |
82% | 69% | The Girl Can't Help It |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1956 |
80% | 62% | Hollywood or Bust | Director | - | 1956 |
80% | 12% | The Lieutenant Wore Skirts | Director | - | 1956 |
85% | 76% | Artists and Models |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1955 |
43% | 62% | Susan Slept Here | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marry Me Again | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First Time | Director | - | 1952 |
91% | 82% | Son of Paleface |
Director, Writer |
- | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 75% | The Lemon Drop Kid | Screenwriter | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Humor Man | Screenwriter | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 34% | Love Happy | Screenwriter | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Fuller Brush Man | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
100% | 64% | The Paleface | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 35% | One Touch of Venus | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Variety Girl | Screenwriter | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unruly Hare | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Censored | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Home Front | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scrap Happy Daffy | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Goldbrick | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Brave Little Tailor | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Tit For Tat | Writer | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Fixer Uppers | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Thicker Than Water | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |