John Waters discusses Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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- "In Albania, is anything so bad it's good?"
"I think of Jayne as Babs the Monkey."
Little Richard was "...the King of Rock 'n Roll, and the Queen of Rock 'n Roll."
"The Chuckles; what happened to The Chuckles...?" - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
So good. It's like going to Sunday School to hear John Waters. The voice of sanity. Little Richard and Jayne Mansfield are truly his role-model icons, the templates for so much of his art.
If we were all a bit more like John Waters the world would be a much happier, campy place. After watching a John Waters interview or movie I always walk away with my heart light turned on if that makes sense. Not many people bring you joy just by hearing the speak, Mr John Waters does every time.
ya true, but the downside is humans would all go extinct after a single generation since we'd all be queer as a 3 dollar bill! 😂
right on
When John Waters talks about Jayne Mansfield it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Me to ! I love Jayne Mansfield !!!
Luv it so much.
Mariska’s mother
The way he fawned over Little Richard is adorable. :))
_Heeey_ 😏
So was the way he plotted beating down that bodyguard to get his interview tape out of the room.
John is so insightful. It helps that he’s so warm. It allows him to see beyond fear
I live that
Love
Well said. I think his tenderness towards people is what makes him so compelling, and frankly, misunderstood by many "mainstream" objectors to his material.
People think that he is all about sex and profanity. But the reality is that he is all about humanity which is at the core of his work. Destruction of barriers that erase or marginalize the misunderstood.
They may call him the "Pope of Trash" but I prefer to think of him as the "Emperor of Empathy"
Could listen to his stories all day.
John Waters is just brilliant and beyond charming!
Ramon C is so cool and seems so nice and kind whatever I see him and so well Informed. The most lovable weirdo on earth.
Just love it!!!
He is such a gent y' just know he has a smoking jacket and a cut throat razor
I met John Waters at a book signing in Tampa a few years ago. He'd been signing books for THREE HOURS before I finally got a chance. He stood there and politely conversed with me for a few minutes, even though I'm sure he was quite tired after his lecture, etc. It was impressive and awesome. Thanks for your intensely cool and righteously disturbing movies, and your kindness, Mr. W.
John Waters is a cinematic genius!
I met Jayne months before she died. She appeared at a White Front store opening, with gogo girls dancing on poles. Indoors. At one point you walked by a table and Jane was right there, standing three feet in front of you. I suppose I was 15.
Wow!
Jayne Mansfield was Truly the movie Queen !!! Pink Palace heart shaped pool she truly lived the role RIP !!!
It is always good to hear people talk about something they truly love.
Just awesome. This program should be in the National Film Registry.
Love Jayne. Love John. Love The Girl Can't Help It. I agree , Jayne was the perfect blue print for a lot of drag performers to idolize and imitate. A fabulous entertainer whose life was cut entirely too short.
I want John Waters to adopt me.
I hope one day we can each find something we love as much as John Waters loves The Girl Can't Help It
Frank Tashlin had been throwing really over the top sex gags into his animated cartoons for decades before this film. It was one of his trademarks. I once saw a high school graduation photo of Jayne Mansfield. Total MOUSEY LITTLE MARCHING BAND GEEK! With cats-eye glasses! Talk about remake/remodel. And the car is a '57 Lincoln. Class.
You're right about Tashlin, but Jayne Mansfield was hot in Highland High school photos.
My mom had to find an OOP VHS of this movie for me pre-eBay through an independent video rental store who had a warehouse source and it was one of the best gifts ever. I had read about the musical line up of Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, Little Richard, The Treniers, Julie London, Eddies Cochran and Fontaine, and the Abby Lincoln sequence was my intro to her. Great film.
I like Marilyn better than Jayne, but over time, I have come to appreciate Jayne for who and what she was. She was a tremendous personality. Not necessarily a movie star, but a celebrity. Jayne was a parody of the blonde bombshell: she was bigger, dumber, and more publicity-craving than any before or after her. I disagree with many film buffs about Jayne's movie triumph. The Girl Can't Help It (1956), her first major hit, gets a lot of hype for being her best movie. Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie and a classic, but to me, Jayne's shined brighter in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), a film version of the Broadway comedy that made her a star in 1955. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is more of a satire of Hollywood and the TV biz, so maybe that's why it's not as popular. Who knows? All I know is I love Jayne Mansfield (but Marilyn Monroe is The Queen, IMO) and I wish she had made more movies of better quality. Her talent was wasted, as was Marilyn's. RIP MARILYN AND JAYNE!
+Dalton Belflower ; Jayne was a good musician and happy in her own skin. Marilyn was emotionally unstable and became a sex toy for the Kennedy brothers, whose minions ultimately had her murdered.
Johnnyc drums Actually Marilyn and Jayne are both smart as hell
@@Johnnycdrums Agreed.
Monroe was deeply damaged by parental abandonment and being shuttled through too many foster homes.
Hollywood and ::: cough cough ::: stardom was the LAST thing some one such as Monroe should have had to deal with.
Monroe had some smarts but evidently not any about people.
She had been making notes about what JFK and Robert Kennedy had been telling her in pillow talk moments. Many believe they included things that were top secret.
The Kennedys were frantic with fear when they discovered she was keeping a diary of their pillow talks.
Meanwhile the Mafia knew much of this and saw the chance to pin a murder on the Kennedys and unmask the two womanizing brothers.
That's what I've concluded from readings and lectures etc.
Jayne is so cute in this film like a doll.
I pretty much agree with John Waters' assessment of THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT. A thoroughly entertaining, quintessential '50s rock film - gorgeous to look at in all its lush color, and packed with so many sensational acts interwoven within a satirical take on celebrity hype. I'm a big Jayne Mansfield fan and this is, hands down, one of her's and director Frank Tashlin's best films. I could watch it again right now.
Thank you John Waters for the glorious revenue of Miss Jayne Mansfield. She was awesome and fantastic and so beautiful.
At one point Little Richard referred to himself as "The Original Georgia Peach." Yeah!
Everything else fades away when I'm listening to John Waters.
Jayne had no dark roots because she wore a wig most of the time. Most people think she was decapitated in the car accident that killed her because the pics of the accident showed her wig laying on the hood of the car. But in interviews of people who were actually there that day (at the accident) say it was her wig & not a decapitation.
Jayne didn't start wearing wigs till about 1960, when teased / bouffant hairstyles became popular. After that she wore hairpieces constantly. And yes, after her fatal car crash, her wig was left on the wrecked front end of the car.
@@hebnehYou are so right ! Jayne didn't wear wigs until the mid 60s Monroe is buried in the wig she wore in some like it hot . Jayne will always be to me the true blonde bombshell !!!
Mariska Hargitay was one of people in the car.
Oh Man...Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and Little Richard and Fats Domino. I could sit at listen to John Waters talk until the end of times.
This is great! My dad saw it when it came out, and his eyes would light up when I mentioned it...
Love Miss Jayne Just Simply Da-Voom 💋💋💋💋
What a great honest appraisal of this movie. I agreed with his favourite bits like the gone gone gone guitar player with the gum and the melting ice and exploding milk bottles.
OMG...him talking about interviewing Little Richard!!! ;DDD
Hes so lovely and charming..💘
I want to hug this man
Love that man!
A Rock-n-Roll anthropologist
What a fabulous interview/commentary!
Jayne is buried in Pen Argyle, PA...I've been to her grave...
i love you, John Waters
As to Jaynes grave, I also went there when my husband worked in philly. I drove north, got lost twice, but made it to her gave. No one else on site, but as I was leaving, a long black limo drove thru the gates.....Mariska? Her family moved her body from Los Angeles to her home.....I went to Levittown, Edgar Allen Poes house off spring garden street...then went north?....I also went to her former house in L A when Engelbert lived there. Also, being from Louisiana, went to her death site a few weeks after the wreck....I was intrigued by her, being a Mensa lady.....
RIP Little Richard.
Man, I learn and appreciate so much more when I listen to John! I knew of the song all this time, but never knew there was a movie embracing it. Gotta hunt that DVD tout sweet!
Little Richard is gone now....he said such nice things about him :)
Terrific!
I always have loved TGCHI, and, of course Ms. Mansfield. John Waters' narration is great.
DeLuxe color prints pre-1983 actually had quite the propensity to fade, unlike Technicolor's dye-transfer prints that never faded. Too bad they stopped that process in 1974 and the revival was short-lived. I know you can "recreate" the look of film digitally, but you have to be familiar with it to know how to do so believably.
This film is important enough to be slated for a complete restoration.
I loved Jayne Mansfield as well. She was absolutely gorgeous and sexy.
The 3 chuckles was a group with Teddy Randazzo, who later on became a songwriter, and penned some of Little Antony and the Imperials hits, Hurt So Bad, I'm on the Outside Looking In, and I think i'm going out of my head!
"...I'll undress." She then proceeds to remove the bottom half of her outfit behind a shrub with bare branches on the bottom half, then walks out!
What a great mind; Waters
John Waters is such a great filmmaker and movie critic. His point of view is so perspective!!! Love the references to Sirk.
Thank you for sharing this!!
I need to watch this movie just so I can copy Jayne's walk. It's crazy.
I never wanted to see "The Girl Can't Help It" until just now!
RIP Little Richard ❤️
this was a good observation of a film...will find this to rent...ty
Loved her in this movie
He's nice! He contributed to my punk zine, I loved mailing him stuff sometimes in Baltimore! I love John Waters so much I purposely have NOT seen all his movies. I save some for in case I live longer!! THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT always cheers me up. I saw it in a revival house in NY w a cool date & I took LSD! Just half a dose. Too bad the original title track w Little Richard is missing today.
John, the car was a Lincoln Premiere!
It was an Imperial !!!
Never would have guessed- never saw one before...Thanks for the knowledge MerleOberon.
Indeed a 57 Lincoln Premiere. Look at those crazy taillights.
@@rogerdale5451 In the scene where they go down to the beach, that big finned boat just wants to keep going into the water and set sail for faraway places.
@@michaelneel4828 l.loved.girl.cant
Help.it.she.what.they.said.at
The.time.the.most.my.aunt
Lived.in.hollywood.then
Said.shewas.a.swell
Mother.god.bless.her
We can thank Technicolor for the current restored versions of THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT. The only way to save the color on Deluxe, which was a single-strip process that tended to fade really badly, was to create Technicolor color separation negatives from a first generation print. Disney did this for their late Fifties and early Sixties films like POLLYANNA.
Want to kow anything at all about American culture, popular, underground or otherwise ask Mr Waters he's just so interesting and knows it all
That's a Lincoln John. love this!
Jayne Mansfield's daughter is also an actress: Mariska Hargitay has been on "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit" for YEARS. I think she's terrific...she definitely resembles her mother's face. If I remember right, I think Mariska was in the car when her mother died in that fatal auto accident.
I believe, about the accident ...her & her lil' brother survived......Mariska Appeared/Debut in "Ghoulies" film!! :D
Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr. were all asleep in the back seat of the death car when their mother was killed. Only Zoltan was hospitalized.
@@hebneh Mariska Was Trapped Under The Front Seat After She Was Slammed Forward So Forcefully. She Recieve A Scar On Her Scalp And Forehead That Is There Till This Day. She Told The Interviewer Of Inside The Actors Studio This When She Was On The Show.
Fun fact: the orange gown Abby Lincoln wears was originally worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, both movies being produced by 20th Century Fox. Abby ended up burning the dress in an incinerator. "After also being photographed in the dress for an Ebony Magazine cover, Abby saw the dress as an exploitation of her body rather than a symbol of arguably the biggest movie star of all time. Lincoln decided that she couldn’t handle the backlash (and over-sexualization) she was receiving from the dress and did something to ensure that she would never have to wear it again. In an attempt to “escape” the societal objectifications, Lincoln indifferently admitted to the press that shortly after the film, she burned the dress in an incinerator to ensure she would never wear it again".
Aren’t movie nerds the best? Tarantino, Bogdanvich, Truffaut...John Waters! people who makes movies but really love them.
Frank Tashlin (the guy who directed The Girl Can't Help It) pretty much did what Matt Groening, Seth MacFarlane, Trey and Matt, and countless others do in their cartoons and live-action TV shows in terms of using vulgar humor and satire. And yet, Tashlin isn't as well-known as Chuck Jones or Friz Freleng. Hell, Bob Clampett is more remembeted, and that's because John Kricfalusi is his biggest fan/protege and is very vocal about it.
so articulate
luv listenin to this feller
tons of brilliant commentary expose the keen eye of John Waters. For instance his 'campy humor' social observation is deeply insightful.
I love love love Jayne Mansfield ❤
I'd like to see John interview Mariska Hargitay,
this is great
Jane Mansfield had an IQ of 149; she was a VERY good actress.
IQ of 163
@@schannstewart9385 163 IS RIGHT !
If you have to say someone is a good actress...
@@schannstewart9385 www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-with-high-iqs/16/
@Kiran Rana Then I guess we should trust you as a poster on TH-cam and ignore the other website, right?
Thanks, John, for your recommendation! I've just ordered it on Amazon.
This guy cracks me up! Love his analogies - "they were ROCK-A-BILLY".
Hmmm, I wonder what are John Waters top 10 favorite movies? I certainly know that this is one, boy I wish I could know the rest! Lol ~Love u JW
He said his favorite was The Wizard of Oz.
Parents were used to Little Richard's glam and show from watching Liberace and Fats Waller.
Jane Mansfield had a very high IQ as well as everything else being bigger than life. She was a wonderful actress and in my opinion was way beyond Marilyn Monroe.
no comparison actually!
John Waters was unkwown to me until hairspray , a wonderful piece of omg what do i so avidly watch
Jayne Mansfield's daughter really looks like her mom
"The late actress Jayne Mansfield, a sex symbol of the 1960s, had a reported IQ of 149. "
"Reported."
The funny thing is Eddie Cochran wasn't famous when this film was made. He was meant to represent the typical new singers, and then a few years later he did it for real.
Was Tom Ewell the only actor to play the leading man opposite both Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield?
And who, ironically, was gay in real life.
Tommy Noonan also played opposite Marilyn in Gentlemen prefer blonds and opposite JM in Promises Promises.
@@hebneh I didn't know Tom Ewell was gay. I need to get out more 😱🤨👍
Tony Randall Also Appeared With Marilyn Monroe In "Let's Make Love." He Appeared With Jayne Mansfield In "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter."
Cary Grant played with both
Someone please, start a petition to allow John Waters to make Pink Flamingos 2!
+Gloria Yaomme I think someone like Latrice Royal would make a good main character. it doesn't need to be a direct sequel! I imagine a contemporary movie, with new and fresh characters, wanting to win, fighting eachother, for the filthiest person alive title! i know Divine is unique. But I would see her presence in the movie. And Connie too! diferent teams, with their mentors: Divine and Connie!
Or just sont do nothing. Because so many people agree that without Divine, it's impossible.
I'm not even sure Pink Flamingoes can work in this day and age. I remember John once said "Back then, you didn't want to be called Filthiest Person Alive. Now it sounds like a rap group.". We're in a post TLC world now where a lot of celebrities come to fame through infamy. If any John Waters film should be expanded upon for the modern age, it should be Female Trouble.
He actually wrote a sequel to it IIRC but it was never made.
Waters has said no sequel could be made. He added that Divine would have to take a dump and a dog would have to eat it.
Muy buena pelicula.en donde reunio grandes de la musica.y actores cinematograficos.faulosa cinta.inolvidable.saludos desde El salvador.santa ana
Brilliant
if anyone knows whatever happened to the Three Chuckles(which included songwriter Teddy Randazzo) look them up on the IMDb!
It was a 1956 Lincoln Capri. Jayne however preferred Cadillacs!
One of the best descriptions of what camp is.
Waters has it down pat. Little Richard was waaaay beyond his time and broke the mold
1957 Lincoln Premier (courtesy of Charles Phoenix).
Great interview
The automobile is a Ford Lincoln (not an Imperial) and Jayne Mansfield is indeed buried at Hollywood Memorial Park on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, near the graves of Tyrone Power and Marion Davies along with many other Hollywood Stars.
She's buried in Pennsylvania. There's a placard for her in Hollywood that has the wrong year of birth (to make her seem younger).
You're correct about the red convertible, it's a -57 Lincoln Premiere. Since the movie was made in 1956, it must have been a brand new Lincoln model just introduced during the film production. Jayne Mansfield bought a Bermuda Coral color 1957 Lincoln Premiere Convertible. A beautiful car that's still around .
Man Alive, what a GEEZA
Frank Tashlin was an amazing director, Daffy Duck, Fox & Crow, then he turned around and did Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis which was both a broad farce and one of the most sensitive films of the period. The man was very aware. Is it really surprising that he was 'self-aware' of so much of the subtext? That he would present a sympathetic view of black rock and rollers?
Could you imagine being the opposite of Jane on this film and Marilyn in Seven Year Itch ?????
I'm sure I'm one of many pointing out to John that the gorgeous car is a '57 Lincoln Premiere - MUCH sexier & flashier than a Chrysler Imperial & they came in colors like Coral and Turquoise. It's equal was the '56 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. THOSE were "movie star cars."
That was so fun to watch.
This is a funny movie, really under rated. Marilyn was sexier. But Jane seemed smarter.
+CaptAmerica12 ; Jayne played dumb blonde roles happily. She knew she was smarter than the average bear.
It is a little known fact that Jane Mansfield had a very high IQ. She played the "dumb blond" to the hilt.
Marilyn read everything that her intellectual Jewish friends recommended and longed to be one of them.
Well I never....I was just going to write what a great critique this was...when I see my own comment saying the same thing 2 years ago...and today I was looking for this to rent...again : 0
Did you find
The Girl Can't Help It
on TH-cam now?
Not the topmost quality - but for watching on a smartphone I thought it was fine. And you may have to locate it through a search engine such as duckduckgo first. Seems if you search only using TH-cam that they hide the free full length movies.
John Waters, Mark E Smith, J Cooper Clark who do we have to replace these wonderful nut jobs when they've all gone??? Keeps me awake at night!!!
jayne mansfield was a member of MENSA. Who knew?
I doubt very much that Jayne was a member of Mensa; I would only believe that if the organization itself confirmed it. Her claimed IQ of 163 is completely phony, like a lot of her invented celebrity persona, including the white-blond hair and the equally suspect claim of a 40-inch bust line. But that was the point, as John Waters says.
@@hebneh I can agree with you regarding her IQ & possible MENSA membership, but a natural 40 inch bustline for a woman whose bmi is on the higher end of healthy (such as Mansfield) is not uncommon, nor do I think in her case exaggeration for promotional purposes 😂
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Gene Vincent Norfolk’s finest
My friend has attended a couple of events where John Waters spoke and then did a long Q&A with the audience.
He is so engaged with his fans and those in attendance!I
He was far, far more gracious and engaging than R. Moreno ~ As was Tammy Faye! Those two had loads more manners, grace and consideration!
BTW...It is not an imperial Mr. Waters. It is, in fact, a Lincoln Pemiere. 1957, I believe.
Deluxe color faded to red. Technicolor never fades. FYI