Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 American satirical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, and Mickey Hargitay, and with a cameo by Groucho Marx.
The film is a satire on popular fan culture, Hollywood hype, and the advertising industry, which was making millions of dollars off the growing revenue from television ads.
It also takes aim at television and the reduction it caused to the size of movie theater audiences in the 1950s.
The film was also known as Oh!
For a Man! in the United Kingdom.
The film was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, who also wrote the largely original screenplay, using little more than the title and the character of Rita Marlowe from the successful Broadway play" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" by George Axelrod.
The play had run from 1955 to 1956 and also starred Jayne Mansfield as Rita.
Claretta
Claretta( english title Claretta Petacci) is a 1984 Italian historical drama film directed and written by Pasquale Squitieri.
The film entered the competition at the 41° Venice International Film Festival.
For her role of Claretta Petacci, Claudia Cardinale was awarded with a Nastro d' Argento for Best Actress.
Frank Tashlin
Francis Fredrick von Taschlein( February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), better known by his stage name Frank Tashlin, was an American animator, cartoonist, children's writer, illustrator, screenwriter, and film director of comedy movies.
He was also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash.
Carol Grace
Carol Grace
( September 11, 1924 – July 21, 2003) was an American actress and author.
She is usually referred to as Carol Marcus Saroyan or Carol Matthau.
Grace was born in New York City's Lower East Side; her mother, who was sixteen when she gave birth, was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.
Grace never knew her biological father.
She was placed in foster care until the age of eight when her mother married Charles Marcus, the wealthy head of the Bendix Corporation.
Grace would take his last name as her own.
She was reportedly the inspiration for the Holly Golightly character in Truman Capote's novella" Breakfast at Tiffany's".
Grace's Broadway credits include" Once There Was a Russian"( 1961)," The Cold Wind and the Warm"( 1958)," The Square Root of Wonderful"( 1957)," Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"( 1955)," The Time of Your Life"( 1955), and" Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning and Talking to You"( 1942).
She was twice married to Pulitzer Prize- winning writer William Saroyan over an eight- year period.( 1943-1949 and 1951- 1952).
The couple had two children: Aram Saroyan, an internationally known writer, and the late actress Lucy Saroyan, who died in 2003.
She subsequently married actor Walter Matthau on August 21, 1959.
The couple remained wed until his death on July 1, 2000; they had one son, Charles.
She had a wide social circle and was known for her wit and good company.
In 1955 Random House published her novella based on her experiences as a foster child," The Secret in the Daisy".
In 1992 she published a memoir," Among the Porcupines".
Grace died of a cerebral aneurysm on July 21, 2003, aged 78.
She was survived by her two sons and a sister, Elinor Dee Pruder.
Lew Gallo
Lew Gallo( June 12, 1928 – June 11, 2000) was an American character actor and producer, best known for his role as Maj.
Joseph Cobb on the 1960s ABC World War II series" Twelve O'Clock High".
Gallo was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and he served as an infantryman during the Korean War.
He also made appearances on other TV series including" Rawhide Dr. KildareLost in Space The F.B.I.Gunsmoke The Twilight ZonePerry MasonTales of Wells FargoCombat!", and" Get Smart".
He also appeared in the films" Ocean's 11" and" PT 109" and Pork Chop Hill.
Gallo appeared on Broadway in" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"( 1955).
As a producer he worked on such series as" That GirlLove, American Style The Ghost& Mrs. Muir" and" The New Mike Hammer".
Gallo died on June 11, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, the day before his 72nd birthday.
He was survived by his wife of 42 years, television producer Lillian Gallo.
They had two children, Mary Ann and Tom.
Harry Clark (actor)
Harry Clark( April 17,
1913- February 28, 1956) was an American actor.
Prior to his acting career, Clark was a physical education teacher, athlete, and factory worker who became involved with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union- sponsored revue" Pins and Needles" in 1937, and its success encouraged him to pursue a career in acting.
His Broadway credits include" The Skin of Our TeethOne Touch of VenusCall Me Mister Kiss Me, KateWish You Were Here", and" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"
From the early 1940s through the mid-1950s, Clark appeared in a string of B-movies.
On television, he appeared on" The United States Steel Hour"'s production of" No Time for Sergeants" and" The Phil Silvers Show".
He died unexpectedly, while playing handball at the Young Men's Christian Association on West 63rd Street, near his home in Manhattan.
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield( born Vera
Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American film, theater, and television actress.
She was also a nightclub entertainer and a singer, and one of the early" Playboy" Playmates.
She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox.
She was also known for her well- publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as" wardrobe malfunctions".
Mansfield's film career was short- lived, but she had several box- office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe.
She enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe, both in the 1955 – 1956 Broadway version and the 1957 film version of" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"
Her other major movie performances were in" The Girl Ca n't Help It"( 1956)," The Wayward Bus"( 1957), and" Too Hot to Handle"( 1960).
She became the first major American actress in a Hollywood film to have a nude scene in" Promises! Promises!"( 1963).
Mansfield took her professional name from her first husband public relations professional Paul Mansfield.
She was married and divorced three times and had five children.
She allegedly was intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, her attorney Samuel S. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli.
On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile collision in Eastern New Orleans at age 34.
Mickey Hargitay
Miklós" Mickey" Hargitay( January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006) was a Hungarian- American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe.
Born in Budapest, Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947, where he eventually became a citizen.
He was married to actress Jayne Mansfield, and is the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
During their marriage, Hargitay and Mansfield made four movies together:" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"( 1957)," The Loves of Hercules"( 1960)," Promises! Promises!"( 1963), and" L' Amore Primitivo"( 1964).
Pasquale Squitieri
Pasquale Squitieri( 27 November 1938 – 18 February 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Homesick for St. Pauli
Homesick for St. Pauli is a 1963 German drama film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Freddy Quinn, Josef Albrecht and Ullrich Haupt.
Heinz Pehlke was the cinematographer.
It was based on a musical by Lotar Olias and Gustav Kampendonk.
A German singer who has enjoyed massive success in the United States, returns to his hometown, the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.
The film was one of the many foreign films that Jayne Mansfield made in the 1960s, after becoming a star in the late 1950s in films like:" The Girl Ca n't Help It"( 1956) and" Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"( 1957).
The film was shot in Hamburg in mid-1963.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Claretta or Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter??