A Life Magazine photographer (David Niven) takes on a beautiful but frigid non-fiction author (Joan Caulfield) whose latest book, "The Lady Says No", is obviously anti-male, anti-sex, anti-romance, and definitely anti-marriage obviously anti-researched. She might as well become a member of the now defunct religious sector, the Shakers, as she goes about humiliating Niven in public at a women's meeting by showing the ladies (most of them well beyond the age of romance) how to deal with a masher. That offensive sequence, handled in the most juvenile manner, is followed by Caulfield obviously learning the error of her ways, basically becoming a hypocrite by chasing Niven and trying to reconcile a couple who have separated because the wife is now an obsessed follower of her ideals, having earlier poo-poo'd the whole thing when Niven picked her up as a hitch-hiker.
Ultimately, this extremely unfunny comedy with no wit, little intelligence and zero point, is a waste of dead trees, both with the script and the book utilized on screen. "The Andy Griffith Show's" Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea) has a rare major film role as Caulfield's aunt, a woman whose own husband (James Robertson Justice) ran out on her years ago and has presumably returned just to cash in on the profits. Character actor Henry Jones ("The Bad Seed's" LeRoy and TV's "Phyllis", among many other credits) has a major part as the Army Sergeant whose wife left him. If it wasn't for the cast, this would rate a total bomb. A dream sequence in the movie only stresses the obnoxiousness of the film.
Ultimately, this extremely unfunny comedy with no wit, little intelligence and zero point, is a waste of dead trees, both with the script and the book utilized on screen. "The Andy Griffith Show's" Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea) has a rare major film role as Caulfield's aunt, a woman whose own husband (James Robertson Justice) ran out on her years ago and has presumably returned just to cash in on the profits. Character actor Henry Jones ("The Bad Seed's" LeRoy and TV's "Phyllis", among many other credits) has a major part as the Army Sergeant whose wife left him. If it wasn't for the cast, this would rate a total bomb. A dream sequence in the movie only stresses the obnoxiousness of the film.