The Girl Can't Help It Blu-ray

Release Year: 1956

Runtime: 98 min

Director: Frank Tashlin

Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, Julie London

Studios: 20th Century Fox

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

Special Features:

New high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio commentary featuring scholar Toby Miller.

New video essay by film critic David Cairns

Interview with filmmaker John Waters.

New conversation between WFMU DJs Dave “the Spazz” Abramson and Gaylord Fields about the music in the film

New interview with Eve Golden, author of Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It.

On-set footage

Interviews with actor Jayne Mansfield (1957) and musician Little Richard (1984)

Episode of Karina Longworth’s podcast You Must Remember This about Mansfield

Trailer. English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

PLUS: An essay by critic Rachel Syme and excerpts from director Frank Tashlin’s 1952 book How to Create Cartoons, with a new introduction by Ethan de Seife, author of Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

Technical Specifications:

• High-definition digital transfer
• MONAURAL
• COLOR