Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) ( Oh! For a Man! )

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: Oh! For a Man!
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Frank Tashlin

Written By:
George Axelrod
Frank Tashlin

Actors:
Tony Randall ..... Rockwell P. Hunter / Himself / Lover Doll
Jayne Mansfield ..... Rita Marlowe
Betsy Drake ..... Jenny Wells
Joan Blondell ..... Violet
John Williams ..... Irving La Salle Jr.
Henry Jones ..... Henry Rufus
Lili Gentle ..... April Hunter
Mickey Hargitay ..... Bobo Branigansky
Georgia Carr ..... Calypso Number
Dick Whittinghill ..... T.V. Interviewer
Ann McCrea ..... Gladys
Alberto Morin ..... Frenchman
Louis Mercier ..... Frenchman

Synopsis:

Jayne Mansfield recreated her starmaking stage role in this film adaptation of George Axelrod's Broadway comedy. Mansfield plays a Monroe-like movie queen whom adman Tony Randall hopes to sign for a product endorsement. Through a fluke, the press believes that Randall is having an affair with Mansfield; she eagerly pounces on the attendant publicity, much to the dismay of her body-builder beau (Mickey Hargitay, then married to Mansfield). At the behest of his ad agency, Randall is forced to propose to Mansfield on a coast-to-coast TV show, which breaks the heart of his true love (Betsy Drake). Both Randall and Mansfield are saved from a marriage neither one wants by the last-minute arrival of Mansfield's hometown boy friend (Groucho Marx). Director Frank Tashlin uses Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter as an excuse to take satirical potshots at everything from TV commercials to the unwieldiness of CinemaScope.

In this spoof of the TV advertising industry, Rockwell Hunter is the low man on the totem pole at the advertising company where he works. That is, until he finds the perfect spokes model for Stay-Put lipstick, the famous actress with the oh-so-kissable lips, Rita Marlowe. Unfortunately, in exchange, Rock has to act publicly as Rita's 'Loverdoll', and Rock's fiancée Jenny isn't too happy about it either.

A striving-for-the-top ad-man tries to land a beautiful, bombshell movie-star to endorse his lipstick account as a way of moving up the ladder at his agency. Soon, however, success becomes more than he can handle.

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