Natalie and Tony make a photogenic pair, but this script leaves them stranded...

moonspinner55

In-name-only screen-version of Helen Gurley Brown's book, a glossy but fairly unamusing comedy which begins as a semi-sophisticated battle-of-the-sexes, eventually becoming a ditsy slapstick outing which treats its characters as overage juveniles. Gossip-magazine editor Tony Curtis lands on Natalie Wood's couch--but sex is the furthest thing from her mind as she's playing a psychologist. Gurley Brown was probably red-faced at having her title (and name) utilized for nothing more than another '60s bedroom farce (one wherein the bedroom is kept strictly under wraps). Curtis and Wood look great in their prime, but their characters are all talk. The liveliest material is saved for alternate couple, Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall. *1/2 from ****

score 3/10

moonspinner55 3 April 2008

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