Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Frank Tashlin (director, screenwriter)
George Axelrod (screenwriter, playwright)
Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film, showing actress Jayne Mansfield leaning over to get a bottle of ginger ale from the refrigerator. With a manuscript pencil annotation identifying Mansfield and the film title on the verso.

Based on the 1955 Broadway play, which also starred Jayne Mansfield. A satirical take on mid-century Hollywood, following an ad man who hires a famous actress to promote a new line of lipstick, but must pretend to be the actress' lover in exchange, in order to make her real boyfriend jealous.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000.


[Book #150435]