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7:00 pm – 11:00 pm VINCENTPALOOZA! Vincent Price’s 115th birthday bash — THE TINGLER (1959) + THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) w/ Victoria Price and drag show hosted by Vincent Priceless
![“IRONIC! RACY! STUPEFYING! That was one of our top 10 movies! [Divine and I] used to watch It every year like families watch The Wizard of Oz” -John Waters
Showing as part of our sidebar series "John Waters Says WATCH THIS FILM!" join us for THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT on Sunday, June 14 at 4:30 p.m.
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he’d honed as a master Looney Tunes animator to the task of capturing, in glorious De Luxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster’s bombshell girlfriend—the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role—and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The question is: Can she actually sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, The Girl Can’t Help It bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers—including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent—who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world. With raunchy gags that use popping milk bottles as a (barely) veiled cum shot, this shockingly raunchy delight is one of John Waters’ favorite films and was a direct inspiration on Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos (which features the title tune), and Cry-Baby.](https://arkadincinema.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)