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The Girl Can't Help It

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

directed by Frank Tashlin
featuring Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, Julie London, John Emery, Ray Anthony

About this title: 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 (Jayne Mansfield) into a star. Alas, Jerri has no singing or acting talent whatsoever, a fact that ... read more

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The Girl Can't Help It [1956] used movie

The Girl Can't Help It [1956]

Tom Ewell; Jayne Mansfield; Edmond O

price: $35.24

Ships from HERTS, UNITED KINGDOM

Format: DVD Screen format: Widescreen Date: 2004

Description: Fine. MINT 2004 FOX REMASTERED DVD REISSUE WITH ORIGINAL WIDESCREEN PICTURE FOR THE FIRST TIME. BONUS FEATURE BY JOHN WATERS ON THE FILM. AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC OF 1950'S ROCK AND ROLL AND SLAPSTICK COMEDY, DIRECTED BY CARTOONIST FRANK TASHLIN. STARRING THE GREAT JAYNE MANSFIELD, WITH PERFORMANCES FROM CHUCK BERRY, JULIE LONDON, EDDIE COCHRANE, FATS DOMINO AND OTHER 1950'S STARS! A BRILLIANT CELEBRATION/SATIRE OF THE NEW MUSIC OF THE '50S, AND THE CULT OF THE BUSTY BLONDE, REPLETE WITH MULTIPLE ... read more


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Name: 84 Charing Cross Road Books, HERTS, UNITED KINGDOM

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