Sex and the Single Girl

About Sex and the Single Girl

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 comedy romance film directed by Richard Quine. The film is filed under sex comedy, deception, breaking the fourth wall, and screwball comedy.

Tony Curtis appears as Bob Weston, Natalie Wood as Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda as Frank Broderick, and Lauren Bacall as Sylvia Broderick. It runs 110 minutes and was released in December 1964.

The screenplay is by David R. Schwartz and Joseph Heller. In the United States it streams on YouTube TV.

Some Like It Hot, Down with Love, and 50 First Dates make useful companions to Sex and the Single Girl, all filed under fake identity. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 85 votes.