Fresh
[Mansfield] constantly catches you off guard. She's this unabashedly crude movie's bleached-blond heart and soul.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Man, oh man, oh Mansfield!
1957 · 1h 33m · APPROVED
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Frank Tashlin
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.
Director and cast
- Frank Tashlin Director
- Tony Randall as Rockwell P. Hunter / Himself / Lover Doll
- Jayne Mansfield as Rita Marlowe
- Betsy Drake as Jenny Wells
- Joan Blondell as Violet
- John Williams as Irving La Salle Jr.
- Henry Jones as Henry Rufus
- Lili Gentle as April Hunter
- Mickey Hargitay as Bobo Branigansky
- Groucho Marx Cast
- Georgia Carr Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[Tashlin], as the writer, producer and director of the film, has let it go mushy and sprawling even more than the original play of George Axelrod.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Tashlin had a huge stylistic impact on the New Wave. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, his greatest film, is the template for Godard's bold use of primary colors and 'Scope in the 60s.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
In converting the stageplay Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? to his purposes, Frank Tashlin turns out a vastly amusing comedy.
Variety
Fresh
The not inconsiderable charms of Jayne Mansfield are much to the fore, but it's Randall's performance as timid advertising executive Rockwell Hunter that holds the whole thing together.
Time Out
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