GIRL CAN'T HELP IT - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Plot: In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he’d honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious De Luxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster’s bombshell girlfriend—the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role—and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The question is: Can she actually sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, The Girl Can’t Help It bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers—including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent—who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world.
• Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony, Barry Gordon, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard and His Band, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, The Treniers, Eddie Fontaine, The Chuckles, Abbey Lincoln, Johnny Olenn, Nino Tempo, Eddie Cochran, Sue Carlton, Fred Catania, Les Clark, Richard Collier, Alex Frazer, Milton Frome, Gene Gilbeaux, Russ Gilberto, George Givot, Barbara Gould, Johnny Grant, Ron Greenwood, Don Hill, Henry Kulky, Fiorello LaGuardia, Little Richard, David Lynch, George Meader, Pamela Ann Murray, Milton Parsons, Peter Potter, Teddy Randazzo, Herb Reed, Paul Robi, Tommy Romano, Michael Ross, Frank J. Scannell, Garry Stewart, Norman Sturgis, Zola Taylor, Emerson Treacy, Claude Trenier, Cliff Trenier, Milt Trenier, Herb Vigran, Gene Vincent, Billy Wayne, Sandra White, Tony Williams, Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker, Garson Kanin
• Director: Frank Tashlin
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox Film Corporation), 20th Century Studios, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie