The Girl Can't Help It

Resurgent gangster Fats (Edmond O'Brien) makes his offer to washed-up dipsomaniac show biz agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell), who's about to back out until he meets the prospect, girlfriend Jerri (Jayne Mansfield), early in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It, 1956.

At the rehearsal hall, the camera finds John Lennon's favorite singer Gene Vincent, performing his signature song, as chastened Tom (Ewell) brings perplexed Jerri (Jayne Mansfield) in to begin the work commanded by her gangster boyfriend, in The Girl Can't Help It, 1956.

Tom Ewell in director Frank Tashlin's introduction of the technique he used to open both his Jayne Mansfield comedies, then credits with Little Richard's performance of the title tune by Bobby Troup, from The Girl Can't Help It, 1956.

Writer and director Frank Tashlin's jokes with Jayne Mansfield (as "Jerri") stopping traffic, then with the milk bottles, as she awakens her surprised new agent Tom (Ewell), recovering from a bender after being hired by her gangster boss, in The Girl Can't Help It, 1956.

A gangster sets out to turn his girlfriend into a rock star in The Girl Can't Help It (1956).