1. Sex and the Single Girl
Loosely based on the book of the same title, Sex and the Single Girl is a pretty innocent romp through the mores of the early 1960s, pre-sexual revolution. It features a trashy magazine writer named Bob (Tony Curtis) and his attempts to get the dirt on the writer of Sex and the Single girl for his magazine Stop. (Stop, incidentally, is run by a character played by Edward Everett Horton, a native Baltimorean!)The author and our heroine, Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood), is a psychologist. In order to find out more about Helen, Bob poses as his neighbor, Frank (Henry Fonda), a stocking manufacturer, who is having problems with his wife Sylvia (Lauren Bacall).
Essentially, the movie deals with many mistaken identities and the fact that Helen falls in love with Bob as Frank and think she loves a (gasp!) married man! Comedy ensues as she finds out that her Frank isn't the real Frank, and a madcap car chase to the airport ensues. Sylvia wants to apologize to Frank, Bob wants to apologize to Helen, Helen wants to go to Fiji with a co-worker (played by Mel Ferrer, definitely the more handsome of the two Ferrers!), the taxi drivers just want to get there, the motorcycle cop goes crazy, and Frank wants to escape to Hawaii -- but he's got a girl in the car with him! It all works out in the end and all the couples are coupled off accordingly.
Fairly entertaining and fluffy, but I will probably tape over this film. I'm not a huge fan of any of the stars -- except maybe a little amused by Mel Ferrer -- but it was pretty good.
FILE UNDER: 31 Films in 31 Days ; Classic Films
Essentially, the movie deals with many mistaken identities and the fact that Helen falls in love with Bob as Frank and think she loves a (gasp!) married man! Comedy ensues as she finds out that her Frank isn't the real Frank, and a madcap car chase to the airport ensues. Sylvia wants to apologize to Frank, Bob wants to apologize to Helen, Helen wants to go to Fiji with a co-worker (played by Mel Ferrer, definitely the more handsome of the two Ferrers!), the taxi drivers just want to get there, the motorcycle cop goes crazy, and Frank wants to escape to Hawaii -- but he's got a girl in the car with him! It all works out in the end and all the couples are coupled off accordingly.
Fairly entertaining and fluffy, but I will probably tape over this film. I'm not a huge fan of any of the stars -- except maybe a little amused by Mel Ferrer -- but it was pretty good.
FILE UNDER: 31 Films in 31 Days ; Classic Films
posted by Rebecca at 4:05 PM
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You're not a fan of Lauren Bacall? If I didn't already tell you that What a Way to Go was a blast, then I'm telling you now. Watch it if you get a chance; the costumes along are worth the time.
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I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this comment, but i saw that you knit & crochet-- AND love old movies!!! you are right up my alley and I cannot wait to start reading your blog on your novella... I will definately be keeping in touch with what you're up to and writing... take care!
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