The Girl Can't Help It

Infobox_Film
name = The Girl Can't Help It


caption = original movie poster
amg_id = 1:19800
imdb_id = 0049263
writer = Frank Tashlin
Herbert Baker
starring = Tom Ewell
Jayne Mansfield
Edmond O'Brien
music = Bobby Troup
director = Frank Tashlin
producer = Frank Tashlin
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = December 1, 1956
runtime = 99 min.
country = United States
language = English

"The Girl Can't Help It" is a 1956 comedy/musical film, starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay written by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel "Do Re Me" by Garson Kanin.

The original music score, including the title song by Little Richard, was by Bobby Troup, with an additional credit to Ray Anthony for the tune "Big Band Boogie". It was shot in DeLuxe Color, filmed in CinemaScope, and runs 99 minutes.

Plot

A slot-machine mobster, Marty "Fats" Murdock (O'Brien), wants his blonde girlfriend, Jerri Jordan (Mansfield), to be a singing star, despite her seeming lack of talent; so he hires a press agent to promote her career. He chooses Tom Miller (Ewell) because of his past success with the career of singer Julie London (a fiction of the script) and because he never makes sexual advances towards his female clients.

Miller reluctantly takes on the job and sets to work by showing her off around numerous night spots and rehearsal rooms in order that she may be seen by those that matter in show business. He merely requires her to move around looking beautiful whilst always dressed in the latest haute-couture fashions.

Miller's machinations arouse interest in Jerri and soon offers of contracts follow. A distraught Miller, terrified of Murdock, twists and turns and uses various ruses to keep him at bay. On top of this, there are various misunderstandings when Mousie (Henry Jones), an associate of the ever jealous Murdock, misleadingly splices a recording of a wiretap between Miller and Jordan to make it seem as if the two have a business — rather than a romantic — connection.

Finally, it is discovered that Jerri does have talent, which appears to solve Miller's problems. That is, until Jerri reveals that she is only interested in home and motherhood and that he is the real object of her affection.

ongs performed in the movie

# "The Girl Can't Help It" - Little Richard
# "Tempo's Tempo" - Nino Tempo
# "My Idea of Love" - Johnny Olenn
# "I Ain't Gonna Cry No More" - Johnny Olenn
# "Ready Teddy" - Little Richard
# "She's Got It" - Little Richard
# "Cool It Baby" - Eddie Fontaine
# "Cinnamon Sinner" - Teddy Randazzo and the Three Chuckles
# "Spread the Word" - Abbey Lincoln
# "Cry Me a River" - Julie London
# "Be-Bop-A-Lula" - Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
# "Twenty Flight Rock" - Eddie Cochran
# "Rock Around the Rockpile" - Ray Anthony Orchestra
# "Rocking Is Our Business" - The Treniers
# "Blue Monday" - Fats Domino
# "You'll Never, Never Know" - The Platters
# "Every Time You Kiss Me" - Unknown, lip-synched by Jayne Mansfield

Cast

*Tom Ewell "as" Tom Miller
*Jayne Mansfield "as" Jerri Jordan
*Edmond O'Brien "as" Fats Murdoc
*Julie London "as" Herself
*Ray Anthony "as" Himself
*Barry Gordan "as" Barry the paperboy
*Henry Jones "as" Mousie
*John Emery "as" Wheeler

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