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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!

By Virginie Pronovost on Nov 26, 2025 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

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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One of the few directors to successfully make the transition from animation to live-action. One critic noted that he directed his cartoons like live-action films and his live-action films like cartoons.

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.

Wrote and illustrated four children's books from 1946 to 1952: The Bear That Wasn't, The Possum That Didn't, The World That Isn't, and The Turtle That Couldn't.

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