1960’s sex comedies were light-hearted and sometimes even wacky movies that had literally no sex in them.
Doris Day starred in several of these comedies… often with Rock Hudson, who later turned out to be a homosexual. I feel that it created a sort of sexual tension that you wouldn’t get with two heterosexual actors.
James Garner was also in several 1960’s sex comedies. You may know him as Jim Rockford from The Rockford Files… or, my younger readers might know James Garner as that guy who died before they were born.
Double entendre was a mainstay of these movies. Talking so vaguely that the listener would think the discussion was about sex… BUT IT WASN’T. That was so hot…
Sometimes, as with Connie Francis and Doris Day, one of the stars also sang the opening credits number. This just goes to show you that stuff like this happens.
The plot to these movies usually involves a single working woman and a man that she instantly hates… with a passion… more deeply that I can recall ever hating someone; then, they get married. In real life, this order is reversed.
The movies were full of wacky misunderstandings most notable of which was the expectation the viewer had that sex would happen at some time during these sex comedies.
No 1960’s sex comedy was complete without Tony Randell… in fact, very few things are complete without Tony Randell. Without him, The Odd Couple would’ve just been about a sloppy guy who lived alone and doesn’t get angry very often.
The few times characters DID have sex in these movies, if was after they’d, unbeknownst to them, gotten married somehow. This is because, if the baby were ever shown, they wouldn’t know what last name to put in the credits.
The best 1960’s sex comedy was Pillow Talk, about a woman who is tricked by a man into believing he is a Texan and not a lecherous song-writer; and, when she finds out, she hates him and wants to kill him until he proposes because proposing to an angry woman in the sixties was like a cross to a vampire. Fifty years later, when you propose to a woman who hates your guts, you get a restraining order…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
With all the twin beds in those old movies….. there had to be a large number of immaculate conceptions.
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I recall a Marx Brothers movie where Groucho said to Margaret Dumont, “Twin beds… you naughty girl, you!”
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You teach me, always 😊
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I’ve always liked these because I remember my parents taking us to the drive in movies and those would be the second movie… The one we kids were supposed to sleep through.
Except for The Ten Commandments. I remember falling asleep, then waking up and it was STILL on…
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Those are the best memories! And…haha…asleep 😉. I always got, “close your eyes”…lol 👀😂
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Most of early childhood is a battle of wills over sleep…
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This was fun to read. Made me smile 🙂
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Thanks, Robyn. They were a big part of my past… To this day I find it hard to pass up a Doris Day movie…
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Odd but accurate. Reminded me of that Jerry Lewis movie when he was looking after all those babies for some reason and Buddy Love 😞
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Rock a Bye Baby and The Nutty Professor. I LOVE the Nutty Professor. Kathleen Freeman was great in it…
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I used to watch Jerry Lewis and Danny Kaye every weekend 😃
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is also one of my favorites, Deb…
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Interesting facts
proposing to angry women sounds like sex comedy
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The weird thing is how quickly they melt after being proposed to…
But, it was a different era. I was just talking to my mother about her trying to get into an algebra class when she was a teenager and she was told, “No. It will just distract the boys”…
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