sentences:  The film contains joking references to several of Mansfield's other roles, including "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956; also directed by Tashlin), "Kiss Them for Me" (1957), and "The Wayward Bus" (1957).The book Mansfield reads in the bathtub scene is "Peyton Place" (1956) by Grace Metalious, which became a feature film and a popular TV series that is claimed to be the forerunner of primetime soap operas.The buxom characters in the book were claimed to have been inspired by Mansfield.