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Box office. $4.9 million [2] Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 American satirical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, and Mickey Hargitay, and with a cameo by Groucho Marx. [3] [4] The film is a satire on popular fan culture, Hollywood hype, and ...
- Frank Tashlin
- Rita Marlowe, 1955 play, by George Axelrod
- Frank Tashlin
- Frank Tashlin
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?: Directed by Frank Tashlin. With Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell. To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Frank Tashlin
- 1957-08
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is an original stage comedy in three acts and four scenes by George Axelrod. After a try-out run at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston from 26 September 1955, it opened at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on 13 October, starring Jayne Mansfield, Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. Directed by the author and produced by ...
- October 13, 1955
- Belasco Theatre
- A Faustian comedy about Hollywood
- George Axelrod
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Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Yes it will. Yes it will. This success with it's hilarious satirical film is what ...
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- Jayne Mansfield
- Frank Tashlin
- Twentieth Century Fox
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) is a live-action comedy directed by a man who specialized, for 15 years, in Porky Pig cartoons, and the relationship between Frank Tashlin's long career as a gag animator and his later blooming as an auteur who used real actors and real spaces is almost unique in the history of movies.
- Frank Tashlin, Joseph E. Rickards
- Tony Randall
Summaries. To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover. In this spoof of the TV advertising industry, Rockwell Hunter is the low man on the totem pole at the advertising company where he works. That is, until he finds the perfect spokes ...
