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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Mar 30—Apr 3, 2024
    Part of
  • Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by Animators
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  • BAM Film 2024
Directed by Frank Tashlin (1957)
With Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Groucho Marx 

Jayne Mansfield reprised her star-making stage role in this film adaptation of George Axelrod's Broadway comedy as a Monroe-like movie queen whom a low-level adman (Tony Randall) hopes to sign for a product endorsement. Director and former Warner Bros animator Frank Tashlin uses this wild comedy send-up as an excuse to take satirical potshots at everything from TV commercials to the unwieldiness of CinemaScope.

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