Watch The Girl Can't Help It (1956) Free Online

Release Date: 1956

Cast: Henry Jones, Julie London, Juanita Moore, John Emery, Jayne Mansfield, Barry Gordon, Tom Ewell, Fats Domino, Ray Anthony, Edmond O'Brien

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Comedy, Musical, Crime Comedy

The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy musical film starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien and Julie London. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 novel Do Re Mi by Garson Kanin. The movie was originally intended as a vehicle for the American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, with a satirical subplot involving teenagers and rock 'n' roll music. The unintended result has been called the "most potent" celebration of rock music ever captured on film. The original music score, including a title song... MORE

The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy musical film starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien and Julie London. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 novel Do Re Mi by Garson Kanin. The movie was originally intended as a vehicle for the American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, with a satirical subplot involving teenagers and rock 'n' roll music. The unintended result has been called the "most potent" celebration of rock music ever captured on film. The original music score, including a title song performed by Little Richard, was by Bobby Troup, with an additional credit to Ray Anthony for the tune "Big Band Boogie". It was shot in DeLuxe Color, filmed in CinemaScope, and runs 99 minutes. A slot-machine mobster, Marty "Fats" Murdock (Edmond O'Brien), wants his blonde girlfriend, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), to be a singing star, despite her seeming lack of talent. He hires alcoholic press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to promote Jordan, both because of his past success with the career of singer Julie London (a fiction of the script) and because he never makes sexual advances towards his LESS