Director: Richard Quine (Paris When It Sizzles, How to Murder Your Wife)
Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall
Okay, here's what I was expecting: something like That Touch of Mink: the good girl wants to prove herself to the playboy/bad boy, but just can't do it. Literally. Well, Sex and the Single Girl is NOT That Touch of Mink.
Dr. Helen Brown (Wood) writes a book called Sex and the Single Girl, and it tells women how to land their man. (From watching the film, I suspect that it also discourages marriage and just encourages single girls to be like single guys and go after sex and be free. Pretty sure that's the message in the book!) Well, a no-good playboy writer of a magazine, Bob Weston (Curtis), has an idea of exposing Brown as a virgin, and therefore, a fraud. Using his friend Frank's (Fonda) marriage troubles with his wife Sylvia (Bacall), Weston poses as Frank and goes to see the good doctor to see if she can help him, but also to make her fall for him. They begin to fall for each other, which is stupid, since he's supposedly married. (I didn't like that part. He was also an idiot, so it's a good thing this wasn't a serious movie, but a comedy.)
So, clearly, the above situation makes for some mistaken identities and other such things that are necessary in comedies. Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda are VERY funny though!
The worst part of the whole film was the car chase at the end of the film. It would not end!!! The best part of THAT was when the cop started crying, and then went crazy. I felt like joining him.
Oh, a cute part was that they kept saying Weston (Tony Curtis) looked like Jack Lemmon. They starred together in Some Like It Hot, along with Marilyn Monroe.
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