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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

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

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
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Austin Chronicle

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

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Emanuel Levy
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It's a great looking great sounding movie.

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12/08/02
Brad Laidman
Brad Laidman
Film Threat

Not one of Tashlin's better efforts.

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08/11/06
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

Wild combination of cartoonish farce with seminal rock performances. Those milk bottles!

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Nell Minow
Nell Minow
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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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New York Times
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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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A veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six.

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08/22/06
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