It wasn’t until Frank Tashlin’s 1956 screwball comedy, starring Jayne Mansfield at her most buxom, that Hollywood finally exploited the nascent rock’n’roll boom. The result is a Technicolor feast of Gene Vincent, Little Richard and Eddie Cochran in their hip-swivelling prime, rivalled only by Julie London’s (literally) haunting shiver through “Cry Me A River”. Camp, corny, but classic.
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