Frank Tashlin Overview:

Director, Frank Tashlin, was born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein on Feb 19, 1913 in Weehawken, NJ. Tashlin died at the age of 59 on May 5, 1972 in Los Angeles, CA .

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The Girl Can’t Help It (, 1956) – The Film The Beatles Loved!

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In 1955, Richard Brooks’s Blackboard Jungle became the first Hollywood film to feature rock & roll music, marking such a historical moment with the iconic notes of “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & His Comets playing during the opening titles. A year later, Frank Tash... Read full article


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Wrote and drew a syndicated comic strip between 1934 and 1938 based on his old boss from the Van Beuren animation studio, producer Amadee J. Van Beuren, called "Van Boring."

His book "The Bear That Wasn't" was turned into an animated cartoon at MGM studios in 1967 (The Bear That Wasn't (1967)) by veteran cartoon director Chuck Jones. Jones and Tashlin were acquaintances from the Warner Bros. animation studio in the 1930s and 1940s.

Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 and began working for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Brothers on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.

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