How to Be Very, Very Popular

How to Be Very, Very Popular

Rock'n Roll hits the screen for the first time in the picture that separates the men from the boys !

1955 · 89 min · ★ 4.6 · Comedy

Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.

Directed by Nunnally Johnson · Written by Nunnally Johnson

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