ASK ANY GIRL
M.G.M.) A Cert. SK ANY GIRL also is mainly notable for the presence of a pretty, talented girl, Shirley’ MacLaine-come to think of it, there are some interesting young women in the movies just now. Here she’s an innocent in New York who manages miraculously to stay a good girl. After getting a job with a sweater manufacturer (Jim Backus) simply because she looks well in his product, and
being almost seduced by one of his friends, she ends up doing motivation research for a firm run jointly by David Niven and Gig Young-simply because Mr Young wants to add her to his long list of girl friends. Smart rather than witty-though I did get a laugh out of one or two lines-the film settles down into a campaign by Mr Niven and Miss MacLaine to sell her to Mr Young by motivation research .methods-she becomes successively all the things his other girl friends are. Here the idea is all right and the film moderately entertaining; but somehow the overall execution isn’t quite what it should be, and I could only feel vaguely dissatisfied with a potentially witty, satirical piece that ends up looking rather too glossy. Ask Any Girl was directed by Charles Walters from a script by George Wells.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 21
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214ASK ANY GIRL New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 21
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