Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
(Oh! For a Man!)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, John Williams
Synopsis:
A small wheel in the advertising industry discovers the perfect girl to sell the lipstick they are working on, but he has to pretend to the media that he is her toy boy while convincing his fiancée that he isn't.
Review:
Generally amusing satire of media success whose status as an all too obvious product of its decade now endears but which must have seemed crass and demeaning at the time. The talents of Randall, Williams and Mansfield are given good opportunities to shine, though not their best, and the latter's sharpness of intelligence at times shines through even this material, deliberately or not.
(Oh! For a Man!)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, John Williams
Synopsis:
A small wheel in the advertising industry discovers the perfect girl to sell the lipstick they are working on, but he has to pretend to the media that he is her toy boy while convincing his fiancée that he isn't.
Review:
Generally amusing satire of media success whose status as an all too obvious product of its decade now endears but which must have seemed crass and demeaning at the time. The talents of Randall, Williams and Mansfield are given good opportunities to shine, though not their best, and the latter's sharpness of intelligence at times shines through even this material, deliberately or not.
(Oh! For a Man!)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, John Williams
Synopsis:
A small wheel in the advertising industry discovers the perfect girl to sell the lipstick they are working on, but he has to pretend to the media that he is her toy boy while convincing his fiancée that he isn't.
Review:
Generally amusing satire of media success whose status as an all too obvious product of its decade now endears but which must have seemed crass and demeaning at the time. The talents of Randall, Williams and Mansfield are given good opportunities to shine, though not their best, and the latter's sharpness of intelligence at times shines through even this material, deliberately or not.