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unusual facts about The Girl Can't Help It


Paul Peek

As a member of the Blue Caps, Peek was one of the first rock artists to appear in the movies, appearing in The Girl Can't Help It (1956).


Ain't Nothin' to Get Excited About

# "The Girl Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup) – 2:07

Brox Sisters

They perform "Falling in Love Again" in the movie Hollywood on Parade (1932).

Secret Paths

#"Falling in Love Again" (Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner)

The Most of Animals

#"The Girl Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup)

The Rays

They also recorded the original version of "Daddy Cool", which was used as part of a medley with Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" for U.K. band Darts which made the U.K charts (#6) in 1977.

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

Mansfield was groomed as a replacement for Marilyn Monroe and was quickly cast in movies like The Girl Can't Help It (1956), the film version of John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus (1957), the film version of her Broadway hit Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); and the film version of the Broadway play, Kiss Them for Me (1957).

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

The film is known as Mansfield's "signature film", and is in a package called: "The Jayne Mansfield Collection" along with, The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958).


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