Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Tashlin laid traditional opening credits over faux television commercials for In lieu of theme song and opening of movie products, Fact2: film From opens on writer for television advertising comedic segue, Fact3: television advertising is low on ladder at La Salle agency, Fact4: Hunter ladder at works La Salle agency, Fact5: news of Rita 's new romance to tabloids and Rock Hunter is famous as Marlowe 's Lover Doll
Output (English): In lieu of a theme song and opening of the movie, Tashlin instead laid traditional opening credits over faux television commercials for products that failed to deliver what they promised. From this comedic segue, the film opens on a writer for television advertising, Rockwell P. Hunter Tony Randall, who is low on the ladder at the La Salle agency, the company where he works. With the agency set to lose its biggest account – StayPut Lipstick – he hatches an idea to get the perfect model and spokeswoman for StayPuts new line of lipstick, the famous actress with the ohsokissable lips, Rita Marlowe Jayne Mansfield. For Rita to endorse the lipstick, however, Rock has to pretend to be her boyfriend to make her real boyfriend, Bobo Branigansky Hargitay, the star of a TV Tarzan show, jealous. Bobo leaks the news of Ritas new romance to the tabloids and Rock Hunter is suddenly famous as Marlowes Lover Doll. Hunters boss decides to leverage his employees newfound fame, but when Hunter also gets Marlowe to agree on a television spectacular sponsored by StayPut, Hunter becomes the advertising firms highestregarded employee. Marlowe, meanwhile, is miserable; she thinks she is falling in love with Hunter, but her one real true love is the man who discovered her, George Schmidlap Groucho Marx. Not being able to find Schmidlap, she pursues Hunter, though her Secretary Vi Joan Blondell warns her that she is playing a dangerous game. Ironically, Blondell, who plays Mansfields frumpy, middleaged, allbusiness secretary, was herself a major movie sex symbol some 30 years before, and whose sexuality was one of the first victims of the Hays Code. Hunter soon finds fame to be a doubleedged sword, getting him what he wants, but with a price to be paid for that success. Women are crazy about him, and he has no peace of mind. Ultimately, he moves up the ladder at work, becoming company president, only to find it is not what he really wanted. Hunter confesses to his angry fiancee Jenny that he finds himself at the top of the heap without any meaning and she takes him back. As Rita Marlowe opens her television spectacular for StayPut Lipstick, she is surprised by the appearance of the shows surprise guest star of and the first real love of her life, George Schmidlap. Freed from strain of advertising, Rock and Jenny retire to the country to tend a chicken farm, announcing that he has found the real living end.