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[[File:girl_cant_help_it_poster.jpg|frame|She was born to please!]]
 
{{quote| '''Tom''': ''"Our story is about music, not the music of long ago, but the music that expresses the culture, [[Blatant Lies|the refinement and the polite grace of the present day]]."''}}▼
 
▲{{quote| '''Tom''': ''"Our story is about music, not the music of long ago, but the music that expresses the culture, [[Blatant Lies|the refinement and the polite grace of the present day]]."''}}
 
Tom Miller is a down on his luck music agent called in to help former gangster Marty "Fats" Murdock's girlfriend Jerri make it big in the music business. Of course things get complicated when those two in love, and it turns out Jerri doesn't even want to be a singer. Can they get Murdock to understand the latter and not find out about the former?
 
This [[Jayne Mansfield]] film is also notable for its embracingembrace of rock and roll. It has many actual recording stars of the time perform their hits, almost like a [[Musical]]. The film also inspired [[The Beatles (Musicband)|John Lennon and Paul McCartney]] to get into music, so this film is one of the causes of [[The British Invasion]].
 
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* [[All Star Cast]]: The rock stars. Just look at the listing at the bottom of the page picture. It reads like a "Who's Who?" of the [[The Fifties|mid fifties]].
* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Jerri causes several accidents by walking down the street.
* [[Double Entendre]]: A lot of the jokes about Jerri's... equipment, including this famous line:
{{quote| '''Tom:''' Rome wasn't built in a day.<br />
'''Murdock:''' She ain't Rome. What we're talking about is already built. }}
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Tom started a while back and he didn't stop.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The lines about Jerri's assets, a bottle of milk bursts open when a guy sees Jerri strutting by.
* [[Glory Days]]: Tom and Murdock had them.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Jerri.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: A newsreel mentions Murdock "making whoopie" with a bunch of bunch of girls on the French Riviera. The thing is it just meant him partying with them.
* [[Hideous Hangover Cure]]: Averts the "Hideous" part.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Tom and Jerri, although the latter is just a stage name, and her actual name is Georgiana.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Subverted. Just watch the scene.
* [[Pimped -Out Dress]]: Quite a few, with Julie wearing as many in her scene as Jerri does in the whole movie.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Several furs, and Tom even uses one of Jerri's fox wraps as part of showing her off. She wears it coming into the club, and when the owner is around, he has her take it off and walk by, so the owner can see her full figure.
* [[Sexy Walk]]
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