Small town girl Meg Wheeler (Shirley MacLaine) who arrives in New York to bag a husband. She falls for a good looking executive (Rod Taylor) but turns and runs when she finds out he wants nothing more than sex. The main plot involves Meg falling for a playboy (Gig Young) and enlisting the help of his stuffy brother (David Niven) and scientific research methods to snare him.
With its heroine dead set on marriage and preserving her virginity, Ask Any Girl is not very politically correct by today’s standards, though, interestingly, take away those two things and the film has basically the same plot as many modern-day romantic comedies. It is a cheery, fun movie, with MacLaine extremely appealing and polished work from Niven and Young. Rod steals the film with his stand out performance; he rarely got the chance on screen to engage in broad comedy and proves extremely adept at it, whether attempting to seduce MacLaine with wolf-ish sincerity or doing pratfalls.
Surprisingly, the film was selected to represent America at the Berlin Film Festival. The reason was the festival could only chose from films submitted to it by the Motion Picture Export Association, and only one other film (The Rabbit Trap) had been submitted.
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