Friday, June 2, 2017

Last week several Facebook friends and I were commenting on the old Jayne Mansfield movie The Girl Can’t Help It (1956). Not only did it feature Jayne Mansfield but a number of popular rock ‘n roll are performers of the time in cameo parts– performers such as Little Richard, Fats Domino, and the Platters. As a draw for adults, the movie also included an appearance of songstress Julie London singing her hit “Cry Me you a River.”  I saw the film when it first came out. A few years back, when I was writing No Marriages in Heaven, I remembered this segment of the film and mentioned London and her hit in the novel's pages. Funny, how the imagination works. When the mind is in a creative mood, it will grasp at anything that pops up. The imagination pulls from many sources, even films seem long ago.

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