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2 unusual facts about Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?


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).

It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, who also wrote the largely original screenplay, utilizing little more than the title and the character of Rita Marlowe from the successful Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? by George Axelrod.


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).


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