The Chapman Report is a 1962 American Technicolor drama film starring Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom and Glynis Johns.

It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck (who previously worked at WB until 1933) and Richard D. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Wyatt Cooper and Don Mankiewicz,[4] adapted by Gene Allen and Grant Stuart from Irving Wallace's 1960 novel The Chapman Report.

Noted psychologist Dr. George C. Chapman, his assistant Paul Radford and their staff are flying around the country conducting an anonymous sex survey of American women.

“People read the digits, make the comparisons, and then label themselves either normal or abnormal.” Dr. Jonas is also very concerned that the interviews, with their probing questions, may stir up trouble for some women – with no follow-through to help them.

The film follows four of the participants: Kathleen Barclay is a young widow who thinks she is frigid because, not long before he died, her husband told her she was.

Wash Dillon, an unsavory jazz musician who lives down the block, takes her to a crummy apartment and they have sex.

Darryl F. Zanuck was having problems with Fox during the production of two widescreen epic spectacular films for the studio in Europe, Cleopatra and The Longest Day at the same time.

When Fox would not do the film, Zanuck offered the property, his son the producer, director Cukor and the female stars to his friend and rival Jack L.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr was given top billing over the four female stars, however in posters produced in some overseas countries his name was shifted down in favour of the better known Shelley Winters and Jane Fonda.

The leading ladies consist of Shelley Winters as an adulterous middle-aged housewife having an affair with artist Ray Danton; Jane Fonda as a young widow who believes she is frigid but who is in fact reacting to her husband's violence during sex; Glynis Johns as a trendy older woman infatuated with athletic young beach boy Ty Hardin; and Claire Bloom as a “nymphomaniac”.

[7] As many as seven different writers worked on the film[7] with Gene Allen, who was contracted to Cukor's organisation delivering the final screenplay.

[11] Upon the film's general release, The New York Times wrote "the four adapters use four case histories of abnormal sexual behavior of upper middle-class women of a Los Angeles suburb who subject themselves to the testing of a psychologist's team of investigators.

They touch, unfortunately only superficially, on a frigid type, a nymphomaniac-alcoholic, a confused, bored mother and a gay, flighty intellectual seeking enlightenment in romance.