The Girl Can't help It (1956 Frank Tashlin)

We find ourselves watching another musical; it's 1956 and rock n roll is happening, It's more of an animated jukebox in fact, not as funny as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? perhaps because of its peppering of well mimed songs (film written by Tashlin and Herbert Baker). Tom Ewell is marvellously deadpan as agent promoting Jayne Mansfield from under the amorous nose of Edmond O'Brien; Henry Jones is also. Colorfully shot in De Luxe Color and CinemaScope by Leon Shamroy, though you can see shadows from his lighting everywhere.

Someone should invent a Jayne Mansfield alarm clock.

The sequence though where Ewell is haunted around his apartment by Julie London singing 'Cry Me a River' is beautiful indeed.