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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 02/12/2025

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Directed by Frank Tashlin

Comedy | Romance

Overview

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.

Rated NR | Length 93 minutes

Actors

Tony Randall | Jayne Mansfield | Betsy Drake | Joan Blondell | John Williams | Henry Jones | Lili Gentle | Mickey Hargitay | Georgia Carr | Dick Whittinghill | Ann McCrea | Alberto Morin | Louis Mercier | Groucho Marx | Majel Barrett | Tom Palmer | Robert Adler | George Baxter | Tex Brodus | Boyd Cabeen | Fred Catania . | Phil Chambers | Mack Chandler | Madge Cleveland | Don Corey | Paul Cristo | Richard Deems | Minta Durfee | Barbara Eden | Mary Foran | James Gonzalez | Stuart Hall | Shep Houghton | Larry Kerr | Jess Kirkpatrick | Edith Leslie | James Maloney | Betty Lou Murray | Carmen Nisbet | Monty O'Grady | Charles Owens | Lida Piazza | Patricia Powell | Benny Rubin | Edith Russell | Jay Sayer | Sherrill Terry | Mack Williams

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is like some Elseworlds offshoot of Madmen where Madison Avenue advertising meets Hollywood glitz and glamor. I like Tony Randall having grown up on The Odd Couple but he feels forced in this. It’s still plenty of fun and lots to ogle (Jayne Mansfield). Super colorful, too.

I’m sure I already knew this and just memory holed it but damn, Mansfield died when she was 34 years old. However, I did not know that she is the mother of Mariska Hargitay and that Mariska was in the car during the car accident that killed Mansfield. WOW

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