The movie adaptation of it, directed by Richard Quine and co-written by Joseph Heller, stars Natalie Wood as an author named Helen Gurley Brown who writes such a book and becomes the target of an undercover investigation by a suave reporter Tony Curtis , who passes himself off as a straitlaced and married neighbor in order to score an interview with her and, ultimately, to seduce her. But the way that Reed working with a script by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake wraps these elements together is less a stroke of historical analysis than one of cinematic inspiration. The sixties saw demolition of cultural strictures in favor of works of nature. But the tone has shifted yet again.
We dive into Hollywood's long shared history with Broadway, and provide you with Watchlist picks from the stage and screen. Watch the video. Title: Sex and the Single Girl Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of sixty thousand dollars. A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician, who does not even remember her. Eventually, they get to know each another and fall in love. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.
I first discovered Sex and the Single Girl in my college library, more than ten years after it was first published. Later, when I found a used paperback copy, I snapped it up. Still later, I found a
One of Bob's colleagues has just written an article about Dr. Helen Gurley Brown Natalie Wood , a young psychologist and author of the best-selling book Sex and the Single Girl , a self-help guide with advice to single women on how to deal with men. The article raises doubts on her experience with sex and relationships. Helen is very offended, having lost six appointments with patients due to the article discrediting her as a "year-old virgin.