Sex and the Single Girl

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Sex and the Single Girl

film by Quine [1964]

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- Richard Quine
  In 1964 Quine also directed Sex and the Single Girl, which featured Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood; the romantic comedy had little to do with Helen Gurley Brown’s how-to guide. How to Murder Your Wife (1965) was a deft black comedy starring Lemmon as a man who fantasizes about killing…
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  In 1964 Quine also directed Sex and the Single Girl, which featured Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood; the romantic comedy had little to do with Helen Gurley Brown’s how-to guide. How to Murder Your Wife (1965) was a deft black comedy starring Lemmon as a man who fantasizes about killing…
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- romantic comedy
  Innovations in the mid-20th century
  …Blow Your Horn (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964) showed leading men such as Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, and Frank Sinatra expressing their longing for and attraction to stars such as Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wood and employing all manner of tricks, lies, and subterfuge in…
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  …Blow Your Horn (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964) showed leading men such as Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, and Frank Sinatra expressing their longing for and attraction to stars such as Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wood and employing all manner of tricks, lies, and subterfuge in…
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