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The girl can't help it / 20th Century Fox ; screenplay by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker ; produced and directed by Frank Tashlin.

DVD special edition.

[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

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DVD video

region 1

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 DeLuxe 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 who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The only question is: Can she sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, 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.

Criterion collection ; 1120

Criterion collection ; 1120.

Gangsters -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Singers -- Drama.

Musical films.

Comedy films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Tashlin, Frank, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Baker, Herbert, screenwriter.

Ewell, Tom, 1909-1994, actor.

Mansfield, Jayne, 1933-1967, actor.

O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985, actor.

London, Julie, 1926-2000, performer.

Anthony, Ray, 1922- performer.

Gordon, Barry, 1948- actor.

Jones, Henry, 1912-1999, actor.

Emery, John, 1905-1964, actor.

Moore, Juanita, actor.

Domino, Fats, 1928-2017, performer.

Little Richard, 1932-2020, performer.

Vincent, Gene, 1935-1971, performer.

Cochran, Eddie, 1938-1960, performer.

Platters (Musical group), performer.

Blue Caps (Musical group), performer.

Treniers (Musical group), performer.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Girl cannot help it

Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.

Wide screen.

Special features: Audio commentary featuring scholar Toby Miller; New video essay by film critic David Cairns; Interview with filmmaker John Waters; New conversation between WFMU DJs Dave "the Spazz" Abramson and Gaylord Fields about the music in the film; New interview with Eve Golden, author of "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It"; On-set footage; Interviews with actor Jayne Mansfield (1957) and musician Little Richard (1984); Episode of Karina Longworth's podcast "You must remember this" about Mansfield; Trailer; booklet containing an essay by critic Rachel Syme.

Director of photography, Leon Shamroy ; film editor, James B. Clark ; music supervised and conducted by Lionel Newman.

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 Cochran.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (2.35:1); mono.

English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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