The Girl Can't Help It (DVD)

Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 1956 / Universal, suitable for all / Director: Frank Tashlin / Actors: Tom Ewell, ... more

The Girl Can't Help It (DVD) ... Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony ... / DVD released 2004-09-06 at Second Sight Films Ltd. / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen

Newest Review: ... chemistry with Jayne Mansfield. He plays Miller sympathetically, but with a cleverly understated comic overtone. He has a ... more

... very expressive face and plays a convincing drunk well. Miller becomes a character you like very quickly, despite his faults and he is both warm and charming. I hadn't heard of Edmond O'Brien before this film, but he impressed me too. Although his character is a bit of a rogue, he plays it with just the right mixture of menace and warmth, so you can believe his dodgy past, but still come to like him over the film. The scene of him on stage near the end of the movie is particularly good. Jayne Mansfield is well-known...more

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The Girl Can't Help It [DVD] [1956]
Release Date: 2004 - 09 - 06, Rating Universal, suitable for all,

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The Girl Can't Help It (DVD): You Can't Help But Love It! (1321 words)
by - written on 30/05/08 (Very useful, 124 readings)
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I have been a fan of Jayne Mansfield for about a year now. I knew she was beautiful and I read her life story with interest, but I had only ever seen her in one film called Kiss Them For Me, where she was pretty, but had very little screen time. Then yesterday, my new DVD arrived - The Girl Can't Help It (1956) - and I finally got to see her in a proper starring role... THE PLOT Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) is an agent down on his luck. He hangs round bars and restaurants watching the latest singers and groups, while drowning his sorrows in alcoholic drinks he can't afford. Then he is contacted by Marty 'Fatso' Murdock (Edmond O'Brien), a former gangster ... Read the complete review

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