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...20th Century-Fox) is a rowdy little comedy that makes an engaging showcase for Marilyn Monroe's growing sureness as a comedienne. Based on William Inge's 1955 Broadway hit and skillfully liberated from the theater's confining forms by Adapter George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, the film explodes with a Fourth of July excitement from the moment Cowboy Don Murray hits Phoenix to compete in his first rodeo...
From Massachusetts: David Axelrod of Lowell and Great Barrington; Sheldon C. Binder of Eliot and Boston; Richard Braverman of Laverett and Brookline; Gerald Y. Chin of Adams and Boston; George B. Doyle of Winthrop and Worcester; Thomas Ehrlich of Lowell and Cambridge; Louis H. Fingerman of Winthrop and Dorchester; Robert M. Gargill of Adams and West Roxbury; Ruber F. Gittes of Adams and Melrose; Arthur C. Gossard of Kirkland and Quincy; William T. Green Jr. of Lowell and Belmont; William S. Kaden of Adams and Chestnut Hill; Robert D. Richardson 3rd of Eliot and Concord...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...
There is an entertaining idea in uniting a 20th-century Faust with 20th Century-Fox. And Will Success, at its best, produces fresher, funnier and coarser lines than anything in The Seven Year Itch. Playwright Axelrod offers sex on the rocks and Hollywood in the raw, coaxes a few new laughs out of agents and Oscars, contrives short vaudevilles on such Hollywood problems as how to treat Boy-Meets-Girl stories. Jayne Mansfield makes an amusing siren and Martin Gabel a particularly skillful agent...
...playwriting, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? often badly slithers; and as satire, it is too often a mere family joke. More surprisingly, the sap in Playwright Axelrod's spoofing suddenly turns to syrup. Kidding the blonde siren at the start, Will Success offers a lowdown but lively Monroe Doctrine; championing the playwright at the end, it provides a weirdly solemn Declaration of Independence. (By this time, in Hollywood plays, integrity should be seen and not heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected...