A reporter for a trashy magazine called Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) intends to write an expose on the 'international institute of advanced marital and pre-marital studios', an organization run by Helen Brown (Natalie Wood). Curtis poses as a man having marital trouble, in order to get close to Wood. Things get sticky when she wants to meet Curtis' wife and three women show up claiming to be her. She plays the girl who became the leader of the sex revolution...He plays...Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall and Mel Ferrer bring you the world's greatest example of dedicated do-it-yourself!. The Do's and Don'ts - the Shoulds and Shouldnts of the Greatest Game on Earth. She plays the leader of the sex revolution in America! He plays...She wrote the book on love!
A raunchy sex comedy starring Natalie Wood as Helen Gurley (real-life author of a best-selling book on marital relationships) and Curtis as a smut magazine writer who attempts to demonstrate the psychologist's lack of personal experience in sexual matters. A fun movie with lots of chaos, laughter, confusion, slapstick and entertainment. The result is a sex comedy as crisp and polished as the thin ice on which it deftly skates. This confusing but at the same time amusing story is full of plot twists and turns until reaching a disconcerting ending. Loosely based on the book by Helen Gurley Brown, from which the original material supposedly comes. Unfunny things at times, but rewarding, although two sacred monsters are criminally wasted: Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda who play a couple with marital problems, they are extremely in love, but they fight constantly. However, despite their secondary performances, they show their experience by vastly and coldly surpassing Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Director Richard Quine has a moderate talent for comedy, but here he shows some very nice scenes and a really funny final car chase that almost reminds us of the Marx Brothers gags due to the surreal madness and extravagances that happen on the road . In these hilarious last 20 minutes, the main cast is overshadowed by Larry Storch as a hatchet-faced motorcycle cop, while several cars are stamped on his machine. Protagonists Curtis, Wood, Fonda, Bacall are well accompanied by a good cast full of slightly familiar faces, such as: Mel Ferrer, Leslie Parrish, Edward Everett Horton, Larry Storch, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Otto Kruger, Barbara Bouchet and even the Count Basie Orchestra performing alongside the pretty dancer and singer Fran Jeffries.
This modestly entertaining bit of whimsical tale was professionally directed by Richard Quine, though it has its ups and downs. Quine was nice actor and director who met fellow MGM contract player Susan Peters on the set of the film Tish (1942), they became engaged and married during the filming of their second movie together, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942). Quine was a good artisan expert on comedy and drama as proved in the following ones : Hotel, Oh Dad poor dad Mama is hung you in the Closet , Paris when it sizzles, W, Prisoner of Zenda, among others. Bell, Book and Candle. Rating Sex and the Single Girl (1964): 6.5/10. Acceptable and decent comedy. The flick will appeal to Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood fans.
A raunchy sex comedy starring Natalie Wood as Helen Gurley (real-life author of a best-selling book on marital relationships) and Curtis as a smut magazine writer who attempts to demonstrate the psychologist's lack of personal experience in sexual matters. A fun movie with lots of chaos, laughter, confusion, slapstick and entertainment. The result is a sex comedy as crisp and polished as the thin ice on which it deftly skates. This confusing but at the same time amusing story is full of plot twists and turns until reaching a disconcerting ending. Loosely based on the book by Helen Gurley Brown, from which the original material supposedly comes. Unfunny things at times, but rewarding, although two sacred monsters are criminally wasted: Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda who play a couple with marital problems, they are extremely in love, but they fight constantly. However, despite their secondary performances, they show their experience by vastly and coldly surpassing Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Director Richard Quine has a moderate talent for comedy, but here he shows some very nice scenes and a really funny final car chase that almost reminds us of the Marx Brothers gags due to the surreal madness and extravagances that happen on the road . In these hilarious last 20 minutes, the main cast is overshadowed by Larry Storch as a hatchet-faced motorcycle cop, while several cars are stamped on his machine. Protagonists Curtis, Wood, Fonda, Bacall are well accompanied by a good cast full of slightly familiar faces, such as: Mel Ferrer, Leslie Parrish, Edward Everett Horton, Larry Storch, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Otto Kruger, Barbara Bouchet and even the Count Basie Orchestra performing alongside the pretty dancer and singer Fran Jeffries.
This modestly entertaining bit of whimsical tale was professionally directed by Richard Quine, though it has its ups and downs. Quine was nice actor and director who met fellow MGM contract player Susan Peters on the set of the film Tish (1942), they became engaged and married during the filming of their second movie together, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942). Quine was a good artisan expert on comedy and drama as proved in the following ones : Hotel, Oh Dad poor dad Mama is hung you in the Closet , Paris when it sizzles, W, Prisoner of Zenda, among others. Bell, Book and Candle. Rating Sex and the Single Girl (1964): 6.5/10. Acceptable and decent comedy. The flick will appeal to Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood fans.