Sex and the Single Girl

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…

…a third Oscar nomination, and Sex and the Single Girl (1964), in which she portrayed writer Helen Gurley Brown. Several box-office disappointments followed, however—including the show-business drama Inside Daisy Clover (1965)—and she spent three years away from the camera.

…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…