Sex and the Single Girl
by Richard Quine
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Actor: Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, Natalie Wood, Tony CurtisDirector: Richard Quine
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: David R. Schwartz
Writer: Helen Gurley Brown
Writer: Joseph Heller
Writer: Joseph Hoffman
Writer: Leslie H. Martinson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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DVD Review: A Game Cast Keeps This Screwball Sex Comedy Afloat and Then Some
Summary: 4 Stars
I actually find this scatterbrained 1964 comedy a surprisingly amusing screwball farce all these years later despite its titillating title. So apparently does director Peyton Reed since he based most of his 2004 comic pastiche, Down with Love, on the storyline of this movie and less so on any of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romps of the same era. Regardless, they all have the same brew of conjugal misunderstandings, mistaken identities and leering though never explicit sexuality because those were the days when a woman's virtue would never be compromised for anyone but the right man. Directed by the heavy-handed Richard Quine (Paris When It Sizzles) and written by Joseph Heller (author of Catch-22) and David R. Schwartz, this ridiculous comedy benefits from a game cast headed by Tony Curtis still riding high from Some Like It Hot (which is referred to for easy laughs in the story) and Natalie Wood who shows her comedy chops with dexterity here.
Curtis plays Bob Weston, a sleazy writer for a men's magazine whose editors are intent on exposing Dr. Helen Gurley Brown as a fraudulent sex expert. Author of the best-selling Sex and The Single Girl, Brown is not at all the clench-jawed celebrity author who wrote the real book and appeared on "The Tonight Show" constantly. Instead, she is a gorgeous, intellectually prodigious 23-year-old who extols female empowerment in the bedroom. Showing off his moral depravity, Weston steals the marital woes of her next-door neighbors, pantyhose magnate Frank Broderick and his acerbic wife Sylvia, and comes to see Dr. Brown as a patient. The rest is predictable but still a good amount of fun. Curtis was still at the top of his game here showing how he can easily elicit laughs from such a vile manipulator, but it's Wood who surprises as Brown. Displaying a nervous but infectious energy that feeds nicely into the two sides of the doctor, she is funny and sexy in a way that she could never quite balance as well again in her career. Witness the hilariously conflicted drunken scene in her apartment for evidence of her talent.
Quine was smart to cast three sharp stars in the key supporting roles - Henry Fonda as the put-upon Frank browbeaten into a sad man by Lauren Bacall pulling all the stops as the shrewish basket case Sylvia is, and Mel Ferrer as Brown's somewhat ambiguous colleague. Add a sultry Fran Jeffries (The Pink Panther) who performs two numbers (including the title tune) for no apparent reason except to sell records, an even sexier Leslie Parrish (The Manchurian Candidate) as Weston's secretary, and a genuinely funny extended car chase scene, and you have the makings of an underappreciated sex comedy. The 2009 DVD, part of the six-disc Natalie Wood Collection, includes a Warner Brothers cartoon ("Nelly's Folly") and the original theatrical trailer.
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