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Sex and the Single Girl
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 American Romantic Comedy film directed by Richard Quine, starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer and Edward Everett Horton. It was inspired by the 1962 self-help book of the same name by author (and future Cosmopolitan editor) Helen Gurley Brown, who Wood plays a heavily fictionalized version of in the film.Robert "Bob" Weston (Curtis) is a reporter and the managing editor of STOP, a magazine that has become a reviled but successful tabloid. Their most recent target for slander is Helen Gurley Brown (Wood), a psychologist who wrote a book to encourage single women to be financially independent and have sexual relationships before or without marriage. Predictably, their article infuriates her and damages her reputation. Bob decides he wants to get a better story on Helen, impersonates his neighbor Frank (Fonda) whose marriage with Sylvia (Bacall) is imperiled, and gets closer to Helen. He unexpectedly grows feelings for Helen, and chaos ensues from there.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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The '60s: The film was made in 1964 and it shows. It is based on a non-fiction book that is associated with the era's Feminism (Second Wave) and the start of the "sexual revolution". | |
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Actor Allusion: People keep saying Bob looks like Jack Lemmon (one adds "in the movie where he dresses up like a girl"). This was due to the success of Some Like It Hot (in which Tony Curtis played) a few years prior. | |
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Animated Credits Opening: See here. | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Jack Lemmon exists in the film's universe. This means Tony Curtis exists in it as well due to Some Like It Hot (which is mentioned in anything but name), and Bob looks a hell lot like him. | |
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Based on an Advice Book | |
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Based on an Advice Book: The picture was inspired by Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 non-fiction book Sex and the Single Girl, an advice book that encouraged women to become financially independent and experience sexual relationships before or without marriage. | |
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