Sex and the Single Girl (1964 Richard Quine)

Great fun, a worthy companion piece to the same director's next film How to Murder your Wife and linked by Neal Hefti's music. In jokes abound with Curtis in drag again, and being likened to Jack Lemmon!

Natalie Wood is hilarious in nervy, screwball performance, note manic glasses cleaning:

Love the giant legs!

Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall support as permanently bickering couple: "Holy mackerel! I could kill myself and be better off than I am now!" Also with Mel Ferrer, Fran Jeffries, Leslie Parrish and Edward Everett Horton.

Charles Lang is on camera.

Written by Joseph Heller - of all people - and David Schwartz, and based on Helen Gurley Brown (a jokey pseudonym?) novel adapted by Joseph Hoffman.

Influence of French New Wave in evidence in wacky car chase finale.