by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is advised by her new supervisor Jim Backus to wear a sweater "a size too small." But she is a good girl: like Doris Day, she won't offer any carnal favors unless a wedding ring is part of the bargain. She targets irresponsible CEO Gig Young for matrimony, asking Young's sober-sided older brother David Niven to help her out. The highlight of Ask Any Girl is Shirley MacLaine's extended drunk scene in the club car of a commuter train. The film was based on a satirical novel by Winifred Wolfe.
characteristics
- Workplace Romance
- Research
- Romance
- Playboy
- Mud-wrestling
- Mud-wrestler
- Romantic
- Secretary
- Women's-prison
- Stenography
- Stenographer
- Sex
- Marriage
- Love
- Deceit
