Movies

Ask Any Girl (1959) Career Girl/Battle of the Sexes farce. Shirley MacLaine asks her employer David Niven to help her use psychological marketing techniques to hook his brother, Gig Young. Cute and funny, almost racy given the cultural constraints of the day. MacLaine is as cute as a bug's ear, and this is the first time I have have seen any appeal in Gig Young - maybe because he is not playing a lovable lush. Nifty costumes by Helen Rose whom I am noticing for the first time and find she did some of the most memorable of MGM's comedies and musicals from the late '40s through the '60s. As good as any such film of that era and better than quite a few. Surprise one-line appearance by young and manly William Smith, champion bodybuilder who would eventually become a biker movie star and all around movie supervillain. 8/10

Look at that one splash of color - Genius!