Ask Any Girl

United States

1959

98 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR George Wells, Winifred Wolfe

CAST David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus, Claire Kelly, Elisabeth Fraser, Dodie Heath, Read Morgan, Carmen Phillips

PROD DES William A. Horning, Urie McCleary

MUSIC Jeff Alexander

Berlinale (Competition): Silver Bear for Best Actress, Berlinale (Retrospective)

Synopsis

When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job in a marketing firm run by brothers Miles and Evan Doughton. She convinces stodgy Miles to market her as a potential wife to playboy Evan. Miles plays Pygmalion. —IMDb

Director

Charles Walters

Charles Walters (November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.

He was born in Pasadena, California, and educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

He is notable for directing Esther Williams’ musicals involving underwater swimming and diving sequences, such as Dangerous When Wet, as well as several musicals starring Leslie Caron, such as Gigi (for which he is uncredited) and Lili. He has also directed musical remakes, including High Society, a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940), and Bundle of Joy, a remake of Bachelor Mother (1939). Walters also directed the last pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway, as well as Cary Grant in the actor’s last film Walk, Don’t Run.

Walters died from lung cancer at the age of 71.

According to William J. Mann’s book, “Behind the Screen”, Walters was gay… read more