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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Tashlin released in USA on 29 july 1957 with Jayne Mansfield
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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Add to a movie listWill 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, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx. The film is a satire on popular fan culture, Hollywood hype and the ad industry, which was making millions of dollars off the growing revenue from television ads. The film also takes aim at television and the damage it was doing to movie attendance in the 1950s.
It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, who also wrote the largely original screenplay, utilizing little more than the title and the character of Rita Marlowe from the successful Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? by George Axelrod. The play had run from 1955 to 1956 and also starred Mansfield as Rita.
A.k.a. "Oh! For a Man!" in the UK.
Synopsis
In lieu of a theme song and opening of the movie, Tashlin instead over laid traditional opening credits to faux television commercials for products that failed to deliver what they promise.Actors
Jayne Mansfield
(Rita Marlowe)
Tony Randall
(Rockwell P. Hunter / Himself)
Betsy Drake
(Jenny Wells)
Joan Blondell
(Violet)
Mickey Hargitay
(Bobo Branigansky)
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