Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

directed by Frank Tashlin
List(s):"Movie One"
Category: "Comedy"
Year of Release:1957
Date Added:01/17/2015
Date Watched:07/02/2016
Description:Rockwell P. Hunter (Tony Randall) is an advertising executive about to lose his job until he manages to get the endorsement of Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield) for his line of lipstick. She agrees to do it if he will pretend to be her boyfriend for the publicity and to make her real boyfriend jealous. He loses his girlfriend Jenny (Betsy Drake) but rises up in the company until he's president. But in the end, the success isn't enough and he quits and marries Jenny and buys a chicken farm.
My Rating:5

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Review - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Nobody to root for here except maybe Jenny, the girlfriend. Mansfield's character is so over-the-top as to be ludicrous and so none of it was funny.
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