The Girl Can’t Help It<\/strong>
\nDirected by Frank Tashlin<\/em>
\n Written by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker<\/em>
\n 1956\/USA<\/em>
\n Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation<\/em>
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Barry the paperboy: [after Jerri Jordan walks by] If that’s a girl, then I don’t know what my sister is!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom Ewell plays the same nebbish as in The Seven Year Itch<\/em>, this time opposite\u00a0Jayne Mansfield as the blonde. \u00a0It’s a cartoonish comedy enlivened by many fantastic rock and roller’s of the 50’s.<\/p>\n

Gangster Fats Murdock (Edmond O’Brien) is engaged to blonde bombshell Jerri Jordan (Mansfield). \u00a0He feels like he can’t marry a “nobody” so he wants to turn her into a star. \u00a0He hires alcoholic agent Tom Miller (Ewell) to make her one, almost solely because he has the reputation of keeping his hands off his female clients. \u00a0It turns out Jerri is with Fats only from gratitude for getting her father a lighter prison sentence. \u00a0Jerri’s big dream is being a wife and mother but she is willing to play along with aiming for stardom.<\/p>\n

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Of course, Tom and Jerri develop feelings for each other and Fats gets suspicious. \u00a0Fats also gets involved in the project \u00a0by coming up with a silly song about breaking rocks in prison. \u00a0One way or another, the film manages work in almost non-stop performances by the likes of Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent,\u00a0and Julie London.<\/p>\n

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I don’t ordinarily go for these leering type 50’s comedies but the music kept me riveted to the screen.<\/p>\n