Career Girl's Question

Sex and the Single Girl is a movie based on a bestselling book title by Helen Gurley Brown. Since the book is plotless, a collection of jiffy food recipes pressed between pages of instant indiscretion, the film makers fabricated this silly little comedy starring Natalie Wood and other celebrities old enough to know better.

As Dr. Helen Brown, an unmarried psychologist who has written a bestseller called Sex and the Single Girl, Natalie brusquely cleans her hornrimmed glasses from time to time to show that she means business. Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an expose of her. His working title is "Does She or Doesn't She?" She doesn't, of course, and remains a brunette to the end. To get his story, Tony goes to seek her professional advice, posing as an eager but impotent husband and giving the name of his next-door neighbor (Henry Fonda). Fonda already has trouble enough trying to persuade his jealous wife (Lauren Bacall) that his presidency of the Sexy Sox company is not merely a front for habitual philandering.

True to type, Single Girl longs to be chased as well as chaste. After a few rounds of parlor tag, it ends with a frenetic pursuit scene that slams the entire cast into fast cars and sends them caroming off to the airport, changing partners en route, bumping into things. All are understandably eager to get out of town, and their impulse to flee provides the film's first and only surge of audience identification.

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