If we were all a bit more like John Waters the world would be a much happier, campy place. After watching a John Waters interview or movie I always walk away with my heart light turned on if that makes sense. Not many people bring you joy just by hearing the speak, Mr John Waters does every time.

So good. It's like going to Sunday School to hear John Waters. The voice of sanity. Little Richard and Jayne Mansfield are truly his role-model icons, the templates for so much of his art.

When John Waters talks about Jayne Mansfield it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

The way he fawned over Little Richard is adorable. :))

I met John Waters at a book signing in Tampa a few years ago. He'd been signing books for THREE HOURS before I finally got a chance. He stood there and politely conversed with me for a few minutes, even though I'm sure he was quite tired after his lecture, etc. It was impressive and awesome. Thanks for your intensely cool and righteously disturbing movies, and your kindness, Mr. W.

John is so insightful. It helps that he’s so warm. It allows him to see beyond fear

John Waters is just brilliant and beyond charming!

Could listen to his stories all day.

John Waters is a cinematic genius!

I met Jayne months before she died. She appeared at a White Front store opening, with gogo girls dancing on poles. Indoors. At one point you walked by a table and Jane was right there, standing three feet in front of you. I suppose I was 15.

Jayne Mansfield was Truly the movie Queen !!! Pink Palace heart shaped pool she truly lived the role RIP !!!

It is always good to hear people talk about something they truly love.

Love Jayne. Love John. Love The Girl Can't Help It. I agree , Jayne was the perfect blue print for a lot of drag performers to idolize and imitate. A fabulous entertainer whose life was cut entirely too short.

Just awesome. This program should be in the National Film Registry.

Frank Tashlin had been throwing really over the top sex gags into his animated cartoons for decades before this film. It was one of his trademarks. I once saw a high school graduation photo of Jayne Mansfield. Total MOUSEY LITTLE MARCHING BAND GEEK! With cats-eye glasses! Talk about remake/remodel. And the car is a '57 Lincoln. Class.

I hope one day we can each find something we love as much as John Waters loves The Girl Can't Help It

My mom had to find an OOP VHS of this movie for me pre-eBay through an independent video rental store who had a warehouse source and it was one of the best gifts ever. I had read about the musical line up of Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, Little Richard, The Treniers, Julie London, Eddies Cochran and Fontaine, and the Abby Lincoln sequence was my intro to her. Great film.

I pretty much agree with John Waters' assessment of THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT. A thoroughly entertaining, quintessential '50s rock film - gorgeous to look at in all its lush color, and packed with so many sensational acts interwoven within a satirical take on celebrity hype. I'm a big Jayne Mansfield fan and this is, hands down, one of her's and director Frank Tashlin's best films. I could watch it again right now.

Thank you John Waters for the glorious revenue of Miss Jayne Mansfield. She was awesome and fantastic and so beautiful.

Jayne is so cute in this film like a doll.

Jayne had no dark roots because she wore a wig most of the time. Most people think she was decapitated in the car accident that killed her because the pics of the accident showed her wig laying on the hood of the car. But in interviews of people who were actually there that day (at the accident) say it was her wig & not a decapitation.

This is great! My dad saw it when it came out, and his eyes would light up when I mentioned it...

What a great honest appraisal of this movie. I agreed with his favourite bits like the gone gone gone guitar player with the gum and the melting ice and exploding milk bottles.

I want John Waters to adopt me.

Everything else fades away when I'm listening to John Waters.

What a fabulous interview/commentary!

I want to hug this man

Terrific! I always have loved TGCHI, and, of course Ms. Mansfield. John Waters' narration is great.

Oh Man...Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and Little Richard and Fats Domino. I could sit at listen to John Waters talk until the end of times.

OMG...him talking about interviewing Little Richard!!! ;DDD

i love you, John Waters

Hes so lovely and charming..💘

Love that man! A Rock-n-Roll anthropologist

The 3 chuckles was a group with Teddy Randazzo, who later on became a songwriter, and penned some of Little Antony and the Imperials hits, Hurt So Bad, I'm on the Outside Looking In, and I think i'm going out of my head!

Jayne is buried in Pen Argyle, PA...I've been to her grave...

At one point Little Richard referred to himself as "The Original Georgia Peach." Yeah!

Man, I learn and appreciate so much more when I listen to John! I knew of the song all this time, but never knew there was a movie embracing it. Gotta hunt that DVD tout sweet!

John, the car was a Lincoln Premiere!

DeLuxe color prints pre-1983 actually had quite the propensity to fade, unlike Technicolor's dye-transfer prints that never faded. Too bad they stopped that process in 1974 and the revival was short-lived. I know you can "recreate" the look of film digitally, but you have to be familiar with it to know how to do so believably.

I like Marilyn better than Jayne, but over time, I have come to appreciate Jayne for who and what she was. She was a tremendous personality. Not necessarily a movie star, but a celebrity. Jayne was a parody of the blonde bombshell: she was bigger, dumber, and more publicity-craving than any before or after her. I disagree with many film buffs about Jayne's movie triumph. The Girl Can't Help It (1956), her first major hit, gets a lot of hype for being her best movie. Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie and a classic, but to me, Jayne's shined brighter in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), a film version of the Broadway comedy that made her a star in 1955. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is more of a satire of Hollywood and the TV biz, so maybe that's why it's not as popular. Who knows? All I know is I love Jayne Mansfield (but Marilyn Monroe is The Queen, IMO) and I wish she had made more movies of better quality. Her talent was wasted, as was Marilyn's. RIP MARILYN AND JAYNE!

Love Miss Jayne Just Simply Da-Voom 💋💋💋💋

Little Richard is gone now....he said such nice things about him :)

What a great mind; Waters

Thank you for sharing this!!

RIP Little Richard.

I never wanted to see "The Girl Can't Help It" until just now!

this was a good observation of a film...will find this to rent...ty

Jayne Mansfield's daughter is also an actress: Mariska Hargitay has been on "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit" for YEARS. I think she's terrific...she definitely resembles her mother's face. If I remember right, I think Mariska was in the car when her mother died in that fatal auto accident.

Loved her in this movie

He's nice! He contributed to my punk zine, I loved mailing him stuff sometimes in Baltimore! I love John Waters so much I purposely have NOT seen all his movies. I save some for in case I live longer!! THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT always cheers me up. I saw it in a revival house in NY w a cool date & I took LSD! Just half a dose. Too bad the original title track w Little Richard is missing today.

I loved Jayne Mansfield as well. She was absolutely gorgeous and sexy.

Want to kow anything at all about American culture, popular, underground or otherwise ask Mr Waters he's just so interesting and knows it all

I need to watch this movie just so I can copy Jayne's walk. It's crazy.

so articulate luv listenin to this feller

RIP Little Richard ❤️

This guy cracks me up! Love his analogies - "they were ROCK-A-BILLY".

Thanks, John, for your recommendation! I've just ordered it on Amazon.

We can thank Technicolor for the current restored versions of THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT. The only way to save the color on Deluxe, which was a single-strip process that tended to fade really badly, was to create Technicolor color separation negatives from a first generation print. Disney did this for their late Fifties and early Sixties films like POLLYANNA.

tons of brilliant commentary expose the keen eye of John Waters. For instance his 'campy humor' social observation is deeply insightful.

That's a Lincoln John. love this!

Hmmm, I wonder what are John Waters top 10 favorite movies? I certainly know that this is one, boy I wish I could know the rest! Lol ~Love u JW

"...I'll undress." She then proceeds to remove the bottom half of her outfit behind a shrub with bare branches on the bottom half, then walks out!

John Waters is such a great filmmaker and movie critic. His point of view is so perspective!!! Love the references to Sirk.

this is great

Aren’t movie nerds the best? Tarantino, Bogdanvich, Truffaut...John Waters! people who makes movies but really love them.

I'd like to see John interview Mariska Hargitay,

Parents were used to Little Richard's glam and show from watching Liberace and Fats Waller.

Frank Tashlin (the guy who directed The Girl Can't Help It) pretty much did what Matt Groening, Seth MacFarlane, Trey and Matt, and countless others do in their cartoons and live-action TV shows in terms of using vulgar humor and satire. And yet, Tashlin isn't as well-known as Chuck Jones or Friz Freleng. Hell, Bob Clampett is more remembeted, and that's because John Kricfalusi is his biggest fan/protege and is very vocal about it.

Jane Mansfield had an IQ of 149; she was a VERY good actress.

Jane Mansfield had a very high IQ as well as everything else being bigger than life. She was a wonderful actress and in my opinion was way beyond Marilyn Monroe.

The funny thing is Eddie Cochran wasn't famous when this film was made. He was meant to represent the typical new singers, and then a few years later he did it for real.

Fun fact: the orange gown Abby Lincoln wears was originally worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, both movies being produced by 20th Century Fox. Abby ended up burning the dress in an incinerator. "After also being photographed in the dress for an Ebony Magazine cover, Abby saw the dress as an exploitation of her body rather than a symbol of arguably the biggest movie star of all time. Lincoln decided that she couldn’t handle the backlash (and over-sexualization) she was receiving from the dress and did something to ensure that she would never have to wear it again. In an attempt to “escape” the societal objectifications, Lincoln indifferently admitted to the press that shortly after the film, she burned the dress in an incinerator to ensure she would never wear it again".

Muy buena pelicula.en donde reunio grandes de la musica.y actores cinematograficos.faulosa cinta.inolvidable.saludos desde El salvador.santa ana

Jayne Mansfield's daughter really looks like her mom

Someone please, start a petition to allow John Waters to make Pink Flamingos 2!

Was Tom Ewell the only actor to play the leading man opposite both Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield?

if anyone knows whatever happened to the Three Chuckles(which included songwriter Teddy Randazzo) look them up on the IMDb!

Waters has it down pat. Little Richard was waaaay beyond his time and broke the mold

The automobile is a Ford Lincoln (not an Imperial) and Jayne Mansfield is indeed buried at Hollywood Memorial Park on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, near the graves of Tyrone Power and Marion Davies along with many other Hollywood Stars.

One of the best descriptions of what camp is.

John Waters was unkwown to me until hairspray , a wonderful piece of omg what do i so avidly watch

It was a 1956 Lincoln Capri. Jayne however preferred Cadillacs!

I love love love Jayne Mansfield ❤

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John Waters, Mark E Smith, J Cooper Clark who do we have to replace these wonderful nut jobs when they've all gone??? Keeps me awake at night!!!

Could you imagine being the opposite of Jane on this film and Marilyn in Seven Year Itch ?????

1957 Lincoln Premier (courtesy of Charles Phoenix).

"The late actress Jayne Mansfield, a sex symbol of the 1960s, had a reported IQ of 149. "

Frank Tashlin was an amazing director, Daffy Duck, Fox & Crow, then he turned around and did Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis which was both a broad farce and one of the most sensitive films of the period. The man was very aware. Is it really surprising that he was 'self-aware' of so much of the subtext? That he would present a sympathetic view of black rock and rollers?

Man Alive, what a GEEZA

Great interview

I'm sure I'm one of many pointing out to John that the gorgeous car is a '57 Lincoln Premiere - MUCH sexier & flashier than a Chrysler Imperial & they came in colors like Coral and Turquoise. It's equal was the '56 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. THOSE were "movie star cars."

Well I never....I was just going to write what a great critique this was...when I see my own comment saying the same thing 2 years ago...and today I was looking for this to rent...again : 0

jayne mansfield was a member of MENSA. Who knew?

Brilliant

This is a funny movie, really under rated. Marilyn was sexier. But Jane seemed smarter.

That was so fun to watch.

It came out at a time where TV was really starting to threaten Hollywood, too. So you'd see these big, glorious COLOR movies with panoramic views and lavish sets and things you just wouldn't get looking at some 12" screen with a Black & White grainy picture, interrupted every ten minutes with ads. You'd see the whole band in the shot, and Jayne at her "fullest" as well - not shrunk down, barely visible.

My friend has attended a couple of events where John Waters spoke and then did a long Q&A with the audience. He is so engaged with his fans and those in attendance!I He was far, far more gracious and engaging than R. Moreno ~ As was Tammy Faye! Those two had loads more manners, grace and consideration! BTW...It is not an imperial Mr. Waters. It is, in fact, a Lincoln Pemiere. 1957, I believe.

Gene Vincent Norfolk’s finest