Me, Natalie is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe about a young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring artistic painter.

[3] From childhood, Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller, who has a slight overbite and a somewhat large nose, considers herself to be homely, and has never subscribed to her mother's determined belief that she will grow up to be pretty.

By contrast, her best friend Betty is a popular and beautiful blonde cheerleader who has been going steady with the handsome Stanley since junior high school.

Natalie is attracted to her downstairs neighbor David Harris, an architect who has left his job for three months to pursue his dream of becoming an artistic painter.

[4] In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film "an artificial mess of wisecracks and sentimentality", and added, "Locales and a gummy musical score by Henry Mancini and Rod McKuen are among the things constantly impinging on Me, Natalie.

"[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times found it to be "as conventional and corny as warmed-over Young at Heart... a pleasant film, very funny at times... Patty Duke, as Natalie, supplies a wonderful performance".