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      Frank Tashlin

      Frank Tashlin

      Highest Rated: 100% The Paleface (1948)

      Lowest Rated: 14% Caprice (1967)

      Birthday: Feb 19, 1913

      Birthplace: Weehawken, New Jersey, USA

      Former cartoonist who entered features as a comedy writer ("The Paleface" 1948, etc.) and turned to directing with "The First Time" (1952), bringing his exuberant, exhilarating comic-strip style with him. Besides his eight films with the appropriately cast Jerry Lewis, Tashlin's name is chiefly connected with Jayne Mansfield, whose only notable films--"The Girl Can't Help It" (1955) and the brilliant satire of the advertising business, "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1956)--he engineered.

      Photos

      THE ALPHABET MURDERS, director Frank Tashlin, Tony Randall (lying down), Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley rehearsing a scene on set, 1965

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 70% The Shakiest Gun in the West Screenwriter - 1968
      No Score Yet 74% The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell Director - 1968
      14% 60% Caprice Director - 1967
      No Score Yet 35% The Alphabet Murders Director - 1966
      57% 74% The Glass Bottom Boat Director - 1966
      60% 68% The Disorderly Orderly Director,
      Screenwriter
      - 1964
      57% 65% Who's Minding the Store? Director - 1963
      No Score Yet 43% The Man From the Diner's Club Director - 1963
      No Score Yet 62% It's Only Money Director - 1962
      No Score Yet 92% Bachelor Flat Director - 1961
      50% 65% Cinderfella Director,
      Screenwriter
      - 1960
      No Score Yet 43% Say One for Me Director,
      Producer
      - 1959
      No Score Yet 67% The Geisha Boy Director,
      Screenwriter
      - 1958
      63% 82% Rock-a-Bye Baby Director - 1958
      87% 75% Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Director,
      Producer
      - 1957
      82% 69% The Girl Can't Help It Director,
      Writer,
      Producer
      - 1956
      80% 63% Hollywood or Bust Director - 1956
      80% 12% The Lieutenant Wore Skirts Director - 1956
      85% 76% Artists and Models Director,
      Screenwriter
      - 1955
      43% 61% Susan Slept Here Director - 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Marry Me Again Director - 1953
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The First Time Director - 1952
      91% 81% Son of Paleface Director,
      Writer
      - 1952
      No Score Yet 75% The Lemon Drop Kid Screenwriter - 1951
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Good Humor Man Screenwriter - 1950
      No Score Yet 34% Love Happy Screenwriter - 1949
      No Score Yet 73% The Fuller Brush Man Screenwriter - 1948
      100% 64% The Paleface Screenwriter - 1948
      No Score Yet 36% One Touch of Venus Screenwriter - 1948
      No Score Yet 22% Variety Girl Screenwriter - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unruly Hare Director - 1945
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Censored Director - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Home Front Director - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Scrap Happy Daffy Director - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Goldbrick Director - 1943
      No Score Yet 89% Brave Little Tailor Screenwriter - 1938
      No Score Yet 83% Tit For Tat Writer - 1935
      No Score Yet 68% The Fixer Uppers Screenwriter - 1935
      No Score Yet 64% Thicker Than Water Screenwriter - 1935

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet G.E. Theater Director 1956 2013