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      • Helen Gurley Brown didn’t come up with the idea for her groundbreaking 1962 book, Sex and the Single Girl. Her husband, David Brown, did. A story editor for 20th Century Fox, David Brown went on to become a legendary movie producer (The Sting, Jaws), but Helen Gurley Brown may have been his most successful production of all.
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  2. Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department, where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest-paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959, she married David Brown, who later became a noted film producer. [16] Career. Publishing.

  3. May 4, 2009 · In 1959, at thirty-seven, she “hooked” the eminently eligible and attractive movie producer David Brown.

  4. David Brown entered Helen’s life in 1958 and would become both her husband and her fiercest champion. Though she was already self-made by the time they met, it was David who encouraged Helen to write Sex and the Single Girl , reflecting on her years in Los Angeles.

  5. Aug 13, 2012 · Helen Gurley Brown, who died on Monday aged 90, was a champion of sexual liberation for “bad girls” and a pioneering publishing executive who promoted women’s financial independence as...

  6. Feb 18, 2022 · Helen Gurley and David Brown were married one year later, in September, 1959, at the Beverly Hills City Hall.

  7. Aug 15, 2012 · (David Brown, the film producer, whom Helen had “hooked” at thirty-seven, and who died two years ago, was her ideal man: rich, sophisticated, doting, and faithful, though as one friend noted,...

  8. Aug 13, 2012 · In 1959 she married David Brown, a former managing editor of Cosmopolitan who had become a Hollywood producer. “I look after him like a geisha girl,” she told The New York Times in 1970.