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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Began drawing comic strips for his junior high school newspaper in Astoria, Queens, New York, starting in 1927.

From 1939 to 1941, Tashlin worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, although he never got screen credit for any of the work he did.

His first job was running errands for Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer at their studio in New York City's Times Square.

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