The Girl Can’t Help It.
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✎ Suggest a correctionMarty "Fats" Murdock wants his girlfriend, Jerri Jordan, to be a singing star, despite her seeming lack of talent. He hires alcoholic press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to promote Jordan. Murdock suggests that Jordan would be perfect for a song he composed while in prison, "Rock Around the Rock Pile" Miller reluctantly records Jordan performing the part of a prison siren in Murdock's song and heads to Chicago to promote it to Chicago.
Credits
- Directed by
- Frank Tashlin
- Written by
- Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker
- Cast
- Fats Domino, Jayne Mansfield, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, Abbey Lincoln, Julie London, Tom Ewell, Gene Vincent, Edmond O'Brien, Juanita Moore, The Platters, Ray Anthony, John Emery, Henry Jones
- Produced by
- Frank Tashlin
- Cinematography
- Leon Shamroy
- Music
- Bobby Troup
- Edited by
- James B. Clark
Copyright
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 19Dec56; LP7423.
Complete catalog record
THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 99 min., sd., color, 35mm. CinemaScope. Color by DeLuxe. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 19Dec56; LP7423.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record, copyright
- Wikidata · Q1506824 ↗
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