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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
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25 December 1964 (USA)
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She wrote the book on love!
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A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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Lauren Bacall, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin: Governors Awards 2009
(From Alt Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 5:04 PM, PST)
[DVD Review] The Natalie Wood Collection
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(From Alt Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 5:04 PM, PST)
[DVD Review] The Natalie Wood Collection
(From JustPressPlay. 7 February 2009, 12:58 PM, PST)
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A Total Waste - Cartoonish Garbage
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tony Curtis | ... | Bob Weston | |
| Natalie Wood | ... | Helen Gurley Brown | |
| Henry Fonda | ... | Frank Luther Broderick | |
| Lauren Bacall | ... | Sylvia Broderick | |
| Mel Ferrer | ... | Dr. Rudolph (Rudy) DeMeyer | |
| Fran Jeffries | ... | Gretchen | |
| Leslie Parrish | ... | Susan | |
| Edward Everett Horton | ... | The Chief | |
| Larry Storch | ... | Motorcycle Cop | |
| Stubby Kaye | ... | Cab Driver 'Speed' Vogel | |
| Howard St. John | ... | Randall | |
| Otto Kruger | ... | Dr. Marshall H. Anderson | |
| Max Showalter | ... | Holmes | |
| William Lanteau | ... | Sylvester | |
| Helen Kleeb | ... | Hilda |
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110 min | 114 min (TCM print)
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This film was the main inspiration for Down with Love (2003), with Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.
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Helen Gurley Brown:
You know, when you smile like that, you *do* look like Jack Lemon!
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Spoofed in "That Girl: Stocks and the Single Girl (#4.20)" (1970)
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Sex And The Single Girl
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Here is a movie that could have been a 60s classic lampooning tabloid journalism, skin-deep psychology, proto-feminism, marital problems, hypocrisy, and sexual freedom. Instead, it is a cartoonish pastiche of amateurish slapstick, poorly-time jokes, silly contrived situations, and one of the most idiotic and long car chases in the history of cinema.
The idea of a sleazy editor doing a hatchet job on a 23-year-old virgin psychologist who has written a bestseller affirming the sexual lives of single women should certainly have hilarious possibilities - specially if he is a liar, she cannot handle her own feelings, and they are sexually attracted to each other. However, the script is ludicrous and inconsistent often degenerating into total silliness: at first, the story appears to take place in New York, then all the characters end up at the L.A. airport; a woman is singing with the Count Basie Orchestra and trying to land a recording contract, then she wants to fly away with any man anywhere; a man struggles with his business and marriage, then he just decides to fly away to Hawaii or Fiji.
The inept direction give us the sad spectacle of screen giants Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall doing the twist while the Count Basie Orchestra is performing a swing song! They try saying their idiotic lines with utter lack of conviction - probably this movie was an embarrassment to them. Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis also fail at being funny although that is the script's fault and not their own. In the long run, it is hard to watch so much stupidity and wasted talent on the screen. Avoid it at all costs.