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La blonde explosive

Original title: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
  • 1957
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
4.3K
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Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall in La blonde explosive (1957)
Trailer for the film adaptation of this howling Broadway comedy hit
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SatireComedyRomance

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.

  • Director
    • Frank Tashlin
  • Writers
    • Frank Tashlin
    • George Axelrod
  • Stars
    • Tony Randall
    • Jayne Mansfield
    • Betsy Drake
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    4.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Frank Tashlin
    • Writers
      • Frank Tashlin
      • George Axelrod
    • Stars
      • Tony Randall
      • Jayne Mansfield
      • Betsy Drake
    • 47User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Tony Randall
    Tony Randall
    • Rockwell P. Hunter
    Jayne Mansfield
    Jayne Mansfield
    • Rita Marlowe
    Betsy Drake
    Betsy Drake
    • Jenny Wells
    Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell
    • Violet
    John Williams
    John Williams
    • Irving La Salle Jr.
    Henry Jones
    Henry Jones
    • Henry Rufus
    Lili Gentle
    Lili Gentle
    • April Hunter
    Mickey Hargitay
    Mickey Hargitay
    • Bobo Branigansky
    Georgia Carr
    • Calypso Singer
    Dick Whittinghill
    Dick Whittinghill
    • T.V. Interviewer
    Ann McCrea
    • Gladys
    Alberto Morin
    Alberto Morin
    • Frenchman
    Louis Mercier
    Louis Mercier
    • Frenchman
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Mailman
    • (uncredited)
    Majel Barrett
    Majel Barrett
    • Shampoo Demonstrator
    • (uncredited)
    George Baxter
    George Baxter
    • Television Commentator
    • (uncredited)
    Gilbert Brady
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Nikki Faustino Brady
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Frank Tashlin
    • Writers
      • Frank Tashlin
      • George Axelrod
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    7jellopuke

    Hit and miss satire

    Occasionally biting, sometimes off the mark with cornball sight gags, but solid for the most part. You can see Tashlin's cartoon background with some of the visual gags and sound/sight cues, but there's just a distance here that doesn't really work. Randall has no chemistry with his best girl and it's hard to buy that angle, but for a spoof movie, you can overlook stuff like that. Overall it's pretty funny, dated in parts for sure, but still watchable.
    7arthur_tafero

    Two Great Reasons to View - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    This is a nice, snappy comedy that hits the G-Spot. This film is built on two mighty foundations; both of them belonging to Jayne Mansfield. Please forgive my tasteless allusions to the major building blocks of Jayne's talent, but she was also pretty funny in this film as well. One must always keep abreast of the latest techniques used by Madison Avenue. As Tony Randall finds out, opportunity is a very rare knocker. Some films are blockbusters, and some are boulders; your will have to decide which is which here. Jayne poses as the titular head of a partnership with Tony, in order to get her boyfriend jealous. A few scenes are in bars, but there were no Hooters at the time. My chest is heaving from overexertion of allusion material, so I will now hit the rack. Enjoy the show.
    7Rrrobert

    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'.
    dougdoepke

    Sharp-Eyed 50's Satire

    Advertising man makes publicity deal with voluptuous Hollywood star.

    Hilarious spoof of the mammary-worshipping 1950's. The innuendos fly fast and furious so keep an ear cocked. Sure, viewers see much racier material now on TV. Still, the dialog's clever, the visuals inventive, and the cast superb. Director Tashlin's satiric eye is penetrating and years ahead, as the 1960's-like ending suggests.

    That spoof of TV advertising is especially funny and still timely. Keep in mind that the TV medium was still new and so was making fun of its life-blood commercials. I love it when the jalopy crumbles under the salesman's boastful pitch. Corporations were also growing, laying out a new yardstick for success. So, Hunter's ecstatic delight with a symbolic key-to-the-washroom is not far off. And, of course, there's Rita's (Mansfield) low-hanging sex appeal, doubly emblematic of the time.

    But Mansfield's also an adept comedienne. Catch how well she spoofs her own role. And were there two more droll characters than Randall and the underrated Henry Jones. Their little tete-a-tete's fairly ooze with actors' delight. Good also to see that great brassy dame Joan Blondell pick up a payday. (Catch the rather humorous shot of her coming rump-first out of the sleeping berth, which seems Tashlin's style, even with minor details.) Looks like someone also threw her the big dramatic grieving scene, maybe out of respect for her veteran status.

    Anyway, the movie's a delightful glimpse of that strait-jacketed decade's more vulnerable absurdities, and in Technicolor's brightest candy box colors. Arguably, it's Tashlin's best.
    RichWall

    Don't Forget Blondell!

    Actually, this film is a lot of fun - 50's style. But the best performance in the movie is the one by Joan Blondell as Mansfield's assistant. She has a monologue about a milkman that will leave you in tears of laughter. Don't ever forget Blondell. Mansfield is quite funny, too! She takes her fan club very seriously and that makes it all the funnier. And that poodle!!

    All the references to Fox movies of the day are there, plus all the digs at TV. They even add a commercial - making it very small and in black and white, fuzzy and full of snow - something the kids these days have never heard of.

    Tony Randall is a scream and the perfect icon of the 50's. What a pity no one ever did an in- depth biography of him - - the stories he could surely tell!!

    The movie is a lot of fun, especially if you remember the 50's. Hey! It really was like this, kids!

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    • Trivia
      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.
    • Goofs
      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.
    • Quotes

      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.

    • Crazy credits
      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.
    • Connections
      Edited into Bye Bye Love (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      You Got It Made
      by Bobby Troup

      Performed by Georgia Carr (uncredited)

      Also sung by an off-screen vocal group

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    • Release date
      • August 1957 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
    • Filming locations
      • Stage 8, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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