Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957
Approved
1h 33m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,9/10

4,3 k

MA NOTE

Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Trailer for the film adaptation of this howling Broadway comedy hit

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Satire Comedy Romance

Pour sauver sa carrière, un écrivain pour la publicité télévisée veut qu'une actrice célèbre approuve un rouge à lèvres. En retour, il doit se faire passer pour son nouvel amant.Pour sauver sa carrière, un écrivain pour la publicité télévisée veut qu'une actrice célèbre approuve un rouge à lèvres. En retour, il doit se faire passer pour son nouvel amant.Pour sauver sa carrière, un écrivain pour la publicité télévisée veut qu'une actrice célèbre approuve un rouge à lèvres. En retour, il doit se faire passer pour son nouvel amant.

Director
- Frank Tashlin
Writers
- Frank Tashlin
- George Axelrod
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,9/10

4,3 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Frank Tashlin
Writers
- Frank Tashlin
- George Axelrod
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations au total

Commentaires des utilisateurs46

Commentaire en vedette

7/10

Jayne shines

A lightweight comedy famous as Mansfield's next big film after 'The Girl Can't Help It'. This was again produced by Frank Tashlin and satirises Jayne's public persona: a busty star of little apparent talent who will do anything for publicity.

Here Jayne plays Rita Marlowe who teams with advertising exec Rock Hunter (Tony Randall) for mutual gain. The film seems wordy at times. It mixes send-ups of the Hollywood publicity machine, the climb up the corporate ladder, and the introduction of television though the anti-TV jokes seem dated.

But anyone watching will be watching for Jayne and she's great. All her too-brief scenes are funny and she plays well with Joan Blondell, who is excellent as Rita's wise companion-assistant. Other enjoyable performers in the cast are John Williams of Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief' and 'Dial 'M' For Murder', and Henry Jones, the supercilious coroner in 'Vertigo'.

Rrrobert
24 juill. 1999
Lien permanent

Anecdotes
Rita Marlowe was named after actresses Rita Hayworth and Jean Harlow. The surname Marlowe is also an homage to 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe, who wrote the 1604 drama "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus", which loosely inspired the original play upon which this film is based.

Gaffes
The airplane window behind Jayne Mansfield's bed is large and square shaped, but when the plane is shown landing, all the windows on it are small and round.

Citations
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.

Générique farfelu
Tony Randall plays the 20th Century Fox fanfare when the logo appears, saying it was in his contract to do so. He then introduces the film, but forgets the title and tries to remember it. Finally, his three female co-stars appear to announce the film's correct title.