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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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Release Date:
29 July 1957 (USA)
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Man, oh man, oh Mansfield! [UK] more
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To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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1 nomination
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Actor Mickey Hargitay Dies at 80
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 September 2006)
Actor Tony Randall Dies at 84
(From IMDb News. 18 May 2004)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 September 2006)
Actor Tony Randall Dies at 84
(From IMDb News. 18 May 2004)
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Don't Forget Blondell!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Tony Randall | ... | Rockwell P. Hunter / Himself / Lover Doll | |
| Jayne Mansfield | ... | Rita Marlowe | |
| Betsy Drake | ... | Jenny Wells | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Violet | |
| John Williams | ... | Irving La Salle Jr. | |
| Henry Jones | ... | Henry Rufus | |
| Lili Gentle | ... | April Hunter | |
| Mickey Hargitay | ... | Bobo Branigansky | |
| Georgia Carr | ... | Calypso Number | |
| Dick Whittinghill | ... | T.V. Interviewer | |
| Ann McCrea | ... | Gladys | |
| Alberto Morin | ... | Frenchman | |
| Louis Mercier | ... | Frenchman |
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Also Known As:
Oh! For a Man! (UK)
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USA:93 min (FMC Library Print)
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Rita Marlowe's screen credits - "The Girl Can't Help It", "Kiss Them For Me" and "The Wayward Bus" - have the same titles as three of Jayne Mansfield's films - The Girl Can't Help It (1956), Kiss Them for Me (1957) and The Wayward Bus (1957).
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Rock Hunter:
Of course, the great thing about television is that it lets you see events live as they happen, like old movies from thirty years ago.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother? (#2.19)" (1961)
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You Got It Made
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Actually, this film is a lot of fun - 50's style. But the best performance in the movie is the one by Joan Blondell as Mansfield's assistant. She has a monologue about a milkman that will leave you in tears of laughter. Don't ever forget Blondell. Mansfield is quite funny, too! She takes her fan club very seriously and that makes it all the funnier. And that poodle!!
All the references to Fox movies of the day are there, plus all the digs at TV. They even add a commercial - making it very small and in black and white, fuzzy and full of snow - something the kids these days have never heard of.
Tony Randall is a scream and the perfect icon of the 50's. What a pity no one ever did an in- depth biography of him - - the stories he could surely tell!!
The movie is a lot of fun, especially if you remember the 50's. Hey! It really was like this, kids!