TY  - ADVS
AU  - Tashlin,Frank
AU  - Baker,Herbert
AU  - Ewell,Tom
AU  - Mansfield,Jayne
AU  - O'Brien,Edmond
AU  - London,Julie
AU  - Anthony,Ray
AU  - Gordon,Barry
AU  - Jones,Henry
AU  - Emery,John
AU  - Moore,Juanita
AU  - Domino,Fats
AU  - Little Richard,
AU  - Vincent,Gene
AU  - Cochran,Eddie
AU  - Shamroy,Leon
AU  - Clark,James B.
ED  - Platters (Musical group),
ED  - Blue Caps (Musical group),
ED  - Treniers (Musical group),
ED  - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm),
TI  - The girl can't help it
T2  - Criterion collection
SN  - 9781681439280
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - [New York, NY]
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - Gangsters
KW  - Drama
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Singers
KW  - Musical films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Comedy films
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Originally released as a motion picture in 1956; Wide screen; Special features: Audio commentary featuring scholar Toby Miller; New video essay by film critic David Cairns; Interview with filmmaker John Waters; New conversation between WFMU DJs Dave "the Spazz" Abramson and Gaylord Fields about the music in the film; New interview with Eve Golden, author of "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It"; On-set footage; Interviews with actor Jayne Mansfield (1957) and musician Little Richard (1984); Episode of Karina Longworth's podcast "You must remember this" about Mansfield; Trailer; Director of photography, Leon Shamroy ; film editor, James B. Clark ; music supervised and conducted by Lionel Newman; Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony, Barry Gordon, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard and his Band, Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps, The Treniers, Eddie Cochran
N2  - "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The only question is: Can she sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, it bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers--including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent--who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world"--Container
ER  -