How to Be Very, Very Popular is a 1955 American comedy film written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson.

"[2] Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg are two showgirls from a San Francisco cabaret who witness the murder of one of their fellow performers and can identify the killer.

Not wanting to get mixed up in a murder rap, the girls flee the scene and hide out at Bristol College, disguising themselves as boys.

The novel was first made into the 1934 Paramount comedy She Loves Me Not which starred Miriam Hopkins as Curly Flagg and co-starred Bing Crosby.

She had been the number one box office attraction throughout the 1940s and early 50s with her films making enormous amounts of money for 20th Century Fox.

In January 1955 the studio suspended her and replaced her with Sheree North who had been scheduled to appear in a film called Pink Tights.

Johnson called the script "a mess, and Sheree, nice little woman, but unbelievably untalented.

[18][19] Archer MacDonald was meant to play a key role but was hospitalised for ulcers and replaced by Tommy Noonan.

[20] Johnson reflected "Betty was good as always, but its only distinction, if you want to call it that, is that I'm convinced that Billy Wilder pinched the plot.

It enjoyed reasonable success, earning an estimated $1.65 million in rentals at the North American box office during its first year of release.