(Frank Tashlin, US 1954, 98 min., 35mm)

Mark (Dick Powell) a successful Hollywood scenarist with a penchant for juvenile delinquency stories, gets involved with jailbait JD Susan (Debbie Reynolds). Perhaps the only film narrated by an Oscar statuette, Tashlin’s provocatively funny Tinseltown satire takes plenty of potshots at the entertainment industry and flirts dangerously with several ’50s taboos. Preceded by Tash-lin’s shorts: SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER (1937, 35mm) and NOW THAT SUMMER HAS GONE (1938, 16mm).