| The Man Who Understood Women | |
| Director: | Nunnally Johnson |
| Producer: | Nunnally Johnson |
| Screenplay: | Nunnally Johnson |
| Starring: | Henry Fonda Leslie Caron Cesare Danova |
| Music: | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Cinematography: | Milton R. Krasner |
| Editing: | Marjorie Fowler |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributor: | 20th Century Fox |
| Runtime: | 105 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $1,775,000[1] |
The Man Who Understood Women is a 1959 American comedy drama film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson from a novel by Romain Gary, and starring Henry Fonda, Leslie Caron and Cesare Danova, with a brief cameo by French singer Renate Hoy.
Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife, Ann Garantier, into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Ann returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to Marco Ranieri, a handsome and very attentive pilot. When Willie hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival. Unfortunately for him, one of the killers is a romantic and decides that Ann and Marco are so in love that both must die so they can always be together. When Willie finds out, he rushes over to France to try to save his wife.