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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

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Rock Hunter (Tony Randall) writes television commercials, and he's hatched a strategy for a new beauty product. Needing a famous face to deliver his message, Rock tries to recruit actress Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield). At first, she thinks it's beneath her, but she wants to make her actor lover (Mickey Hargitay) envious, so she agrees, as long as Rock pretends to be her boyfriend. Soon, Rock is running the ad company, but his ascension is greeted by all kinds of personal troubles.
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Richard Brody The New Yorker Apr 3, 2023
The movie spotlights the self-consuming, self-perpetuating echoes of mass media and their jangling yet liberating amplification of private, intimate matters. Go to Full Review Keith Uhlich Time Out Apr 9, 2013
4/5
[Mansfield] constantly catches you off guard. She's this unabashedly crude movie's bleached-blond heart and soul. Go to Full Review Philip French Guardian Jan 3, 2011
The picture sends up and encapsulates the complacency of the conformist Eisenhower years. Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Aug 30, 2026
3.5/4
While the film lacks the musical revolution encapsulated by Mansfield's previous hit, it makes up for it with a funnier storyline. Go to Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Jul 21, 2024
4/4
This masterpiece by Frank Tashlin may be his greatest film. Go to Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Nov 26, 2019
Ad agencies and television, instead of Hollywood, are noisily satirized in Hollywood's rewrite of George Axelrod's Broadway farce. It's a funny show just the same. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Eric P @RT06161622 Apr 20, 2022 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Yes it will. This success with it's hilarious satirical film is what made this film pretty well made. The performance by Jayne Mansfield playing a parody of Marilyn Monroe was pretty fine. This film has it made. See more Ed M @RT80499164 Jan 19, 2022 Weak. Plays like a cookie cutter sitcom. See more Matthew D @RT74523642 Aug 27, 2021 "He didn't speak English that well. being from Texas". Ha, great flick! See more Aug 27, 2021 Jayne Mansfield was no Bette Davis, but Tony Randall is much fun in this 1957 movie. See more deke p @RT96675217 Jul 12, 2021 I remember it playing at the magnificent Avalon, Catalina CASINO Theater when we were summer vacationing there in 1957. Apparently it is considered a very important movie. Then why I have NEVER seen it on broadcast TV until i see it is on THE MOVIE CHANNEL today, 7.12.21. For years I wondered why the movie title would have ROCK HUDSON's name in it. I was a confused young lad. But later, TONY RANDALL would costar in some movies with the original ROCK. Oh, and JANE MANSFIELD (hubba hubba) great reviews, I'm still verklempt she died in that terrible car crash. Saw it on tv again 1.17.2022. I don't think I want to sit thru it all again, kinda silly. PS: I did not realize this was previously a popular stage play, which Wiki sz was almost entirely changed in the movie. See more May 13, 2021 Jayne is such a great actress. So underrated and stated on Broadway. What a beautiful movie worthy of her acting skills. So many of the films Fox put her in where unworthy of her talents. She is a tragic beauty. See more Read all reviews
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Frank Tashlin

Director

Jayne Mansfield

Rita Marlowe

Tony Randall

Rockwell P. Hunter

Joan Blondell

Violet

Betsy Drake

Jenny Wells

John Williams

Irving La Salle Jr.

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Synopsis Rock Hunter (Tony Randall) writes television commercials, and he's hatched a strategy for a new beauty product. Needing a famous face to deliver his message, Rock tries to recruit actress Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield). At first, she thinks it's beneath her, but she wants to make her actor lover (Mickey Hargitay) envious, so she agrees, as long as Rock pretends to be her boyfriend. Soon, Rock is running the ad company, but his ascension is greeted by all kinds of personal troubles.
Director
Frank Tashlin
Producer
Frank Tashlin
Distributor
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 26, 1957, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 1, 2011
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Stereo
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