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The Girl Can't Help It (VHS)

 
The Girl Can't Help It (VHS)

Leading Role: Jayne Mansfield
Director: Frank Tashlin
Rating: Not Rated
Format: VHS
Product ID: EPID3082857
Description: 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 com...
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Movie Description
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.

Credits
Producer:Frank Tashlin
Cast:Fats Domino, Henry Jones, John Emery, Little Richard, Ray Anthony

Notes
Color by DeLuxe; shot in CinemaScope.

Editorial Reviews
"[A] Technicolor feast....Camp, corny, but classic."
Uncut - Uncut Staff (10/01/2004)

"[T]his is the quintessential rock-and-roll movie, parading such stars as Little Richard and Eddie Cochran."
Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (11/01/2004)

"[A] film that was both funny and musically valid..."
Mojo - Mojo Staff (12/01/2004)

4 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his 1956 production contains jaw-dropping numbers from Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Abbie Lincoln..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Relic (08/24/2006)

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