The Man Who Understood Women

This is a divided movie that spends the first half being witty and satiric and very "inside" on the subject of Hollywood, but falls apart when it goes into farce and then into drama. Fonda is an aging motion picture wunderkind many of whose films have won Oscars but failed to ignite much audience approval. We see his life in Tinseltown and all the silly things movie people do. Fonda meets Caron, a young actress, and decides to make her into the next reigning screen star. He writes, produces, directs, and acts in a film with Caron that finally achieves the popular success everyone knew he was capable of. Caron feels that he cares more for her as a vehicle for...