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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.
- 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. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.
- (4K)
- 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 .
- October 13, 1955
- Belasco Theatre
- A Faustian comedy about Hollywood
- George Axelrod
Needing a famous face to deliver his message, Rock tries to recruit actress Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield). At first she thinks it's beneath her, but she wants to make her actor lover (Mickey ...
- (74)
- 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
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Aug 12, 2006 · Savage as it is, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? remains, paradoxically, among Tashlin’s most joyous works. Continuously vibrating with comic energy, the Cinemascope screen is a playpen of jubilant brassiness, compounded by superb performances.