Sex and the Single Girl (Warner 1964, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood)

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5 years ago

on

June 28, 2018

This slapstick sex comedy has absolutely nothing to do with Cosmopolitan magazine publisher Helen Gurley Brown’s book, but does boast a script by Joseph Heller, the author of ‘Catch-22’. Tony Curtis gets an assignment to expose the director of ‘The International Institute of Advanced Marital and Pre-Marital Studies’ (Natalie Wood) as a virgin. Featuring Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall, Curtis’s battling neighbors, who get mixed up in the scheme when the reporter uses Fonda’s name as an alias. This seemed sophisticated then.

Five major players in Sex and the Single Girl were married to notable actors: Natalie Wood to Robert Wagner; Tony Curtis to Janet Leigh; Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart; Henry Fonda to Margaret Sullavan; and Mel Ferrer to Audrey Hepburn.

production details
USA | Warner Bros. / 110 minutes / 1964-12-25

Director: Richard Quine
Producer: William T. Orr
Cinematography: Charles Lang Jr.
Music: Neal Hefti
Script: Joseph Heller
Art Direction: Cary O’Dell

cast
Tony Curtis as Bob Weston
Natalie Wood as Helen Gurley Brown
Henry Fonda as Frank Luther Broderick
Lauren Bacall as Sylvia Broderick
Howard St. John as Randall
Fran Jeffries as Gretchen
Otto Kruger as Dr. Anderson
Mel Ferrer as Dr. Rudolph (Rudy) DeMeyer
Leslie Parrish as Susan
Edward Everett Horton as The Chief
Larry Storch as Motorcycle Cop
Stubby Kaye as Helen’s Cabbie
Max Showalter as Holmes