The Girl Can't Help It

Dec 1, 1956

1h 38m

★ 6.2

BABY, IT'S THE GREATEST!

Overview

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

The Girl Can't Help It Trailers

Cast

Tom Miller

Tom Ewell

Jerri Jordan

Jayne Mansfield

Marty 'Fats' Murdock

Edmond O'Brien

Mousie

Henry Jones

Herself

Julie London

Barry the Paperboy

Barry Gordon

Himself

Ray Anthony

Wheeler

John Emery

Hilda

Juanita Moore

Himself

Fats Domino

Herself

Abbey Lincoln

Himself

Johnny Olenn

When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.

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