Mostly OT: The Girl Can't Help It

[frizfrelengfan]

A Youtube user posted the entire film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW5R8) (in eleven parts). The first cartoon connection is it was directed by Frank Tashlin. It stars Tom Ewell as a washed-up talent agent hired by an ex-gangster to make the gangster's girlfriend a star. The girlfriend is played by the curvaceous Jayne Mansfield, who was tragically killed in a car accident several years later. It's a funny film, and also great if you like very early rock 'n roll. It was released in 1956 and shot in CinemaScope.

This particular poster has many interesting videos. He's also got the entire films Some Like It Hot and Johnny Guitar. And the second cartoon connection: He's got plenty of cartoons (a Fleischer Screen Song, Woody, WB, Columbia, Van Beuren, Famous, Popeye, "Flebus"). And to top it off, he's got a clip of Shamus Culhane talking about the Fleischer studio.

[Bradskey]

It's interesting to me what some people will so brazenly post on Youtube, but that issue aside, if they had coughed up the measely $50,000 (or whatever it was) to get Elvis into this film it would have been the perfect monument on film to 50's rock and roll, and it's pretty good in that regard as it is.

[Thad]

It's interesting to me what some people will so brazenly post on Youtube
:shame: :D

[Matthew Hunter]

:shame: :D

Thad has something to tell us, but he's not talking. :tweety:

[frizfrelengfan]

It's interesting to me what some people will so brazenly post on Youtube, but that issue aside, if they had coughed up the measely $50,000 (or whatever it was) to get Elvis into this film it would have been the perfect monument on film to 50's rock and roll, and it's pretty good in that regard as it is.Elvis was conspicuous by his absence.

[J Lee]

It would have been interesting to see how Tashlin handled Elvis if he had stayed with Warners -- given the aging of the staff, the 50s gags using Presley have a certain "Oh these kids these days!" feel to them. Tashlin's satire has a little bit of the same bemusement, but handles the live-action lampooning with a lighter touch.

Warners wouldn't get a good rock n' roll gag into a cartoon until the Bugs-Sam linking segment to intro "Long-Haired Hare" on "The Bugs Bunny Show" (you knew from the 50s theatricals Friz wasn't a fan of The King; here he lets Sam do his talking and breaking, though Friz wasn't exactly a big Bing Crosby lover in the 1930s, either).