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   Who plays Jerri Jordan in the Girl Can't Help It?

   • In The Girl Can’t Help It, Mansfield plays a sweet naïf named Jerri Jordan who wants nothing to do with being a star. All Jerri wants, deep down, is to be a June Cleaver–esque housewife, spending her days cracking eggs and making batter and picking up Tinkertoys.

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   Is the Girl Can't Help It a comedy?

   • The Girl Can’t Help It is, ostensibly, a comedy about the music business. More specifically, it is a movie about rock and roll, a musical genre born out of rhythm and blues and exploited commercially by blue-eyed white boys, who by 1956 were already using gimmicks and gyrations to land themselves on national television.

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   Is the Girl Can't Help It worth watching?

   • Far more aligned with The Girl Can’t Help It ’s overall aesthetic value system is John Waters, who in his 20-minute appreciation of the film, which he calls easily one of his top 10 all-time favorites, packs more enthusiasm and observations than film scholar Toby Miller does in his entire feature-length commentary track.

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   Is the Girl Can't Help It a satire?

   • The film, which emerged two years after Judy Garland’s A Star Is Born, is a clear satire on the popular trope of “girl throws herself headlong at showbiz.” In The Girl Can’t Help It, Mansfield plays a sweet naïf named Jerri Jordan who wants nothing to do with being a star.

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   Did Hugo Friedhofer & Lionel Newman compose 'the Girl Can't Help It'?

   • Two uncredited composers on The Girl Can't Help It, Hugo Friedhofer and Lionel Newman, had also composed music for the Elvis film Love Me Tender, in the same year, 1956. The film and its title song are referenced in the Warner Bros. 1985 comedy film Spies Like Us, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, and Donna Dixon.

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   The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 American musical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield in the lead role, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, and Julie London. The picture was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 short story, "Do Re Mi" by Garson Kanin. [ 3 ]

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   • 12 Years a Slave’ (2013) IMDb score: 8.1/10. What it’s about: Solomon Northup is a free African-American citizen of New York. However, that changes one day when Solomon is abducted and sold as a slave.
   • Fargo’ (1996) IMDb score: 8.1/10. What it’s about: Jerry is a worker in his father-in-law’s car dealership, embezzling large amounts of money in various schemes.
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   • Misery’ (1990) IMDb score: 7.8/10. What it’s about: Paul Sheldon, a famous writer, has a car accident but is found by Anne Wilkes – his ‘number one fan.’

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   Apr 19, 2022 · In The Girl Can’t Help It, Mansfield plays a sweet naïf named Jerri Jordan who wants nothing to do with being a star. All Jerri wants, deep down, is to be a June Cleaver–esque housewife, spending her days cracking eggs and making batter and picking up Tinkertoys.

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   Hefty hoodlum Marty "Fats" Murdock (Edmond O'Brien) employs has-been agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to transform his girlfriend, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), into a singing star because he trusts...

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   Feb 20, 2024 · The Girl Can't Help It's thesis statement is true: it's a story about music, but also one about love, marriage, and family...and sadly sexism. The Girl Can't Help It is available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD through The Criterion Collection.

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    Apr 23, 2022 · The Girl Can’t Help It. All hail Frank Tashlin! The ex-cartoon director all but invented our fixation on extreme ’50s style, and in this musical comedy wrangles the top obsessions of the decade, rock ‘n’ roll and buxom Hollywood sex appeal as represented by Jayne Mansfield and her milk bottles.

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    May 11, 2022 · Taking a cue from the decade’s manic consumerism, Murdock orders a bit of manufacturing of his own: to shape his blond bombshell of a fiancée, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), from a “nobody” into a star, an assignment that naturally falls to Tom.