The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Henry Ephron |
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William Bowers Phoebe Ephron Frank Tashlin (uncredited) Story: John O'Hara |
| Starring |
Gordon MacRae Dan Dailey Ernest Borgnine Sheree North |
| Music by | Lionel Newman |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.16 million |
| Box office | $2.7 million |
The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane).
In 1957, the year after the film was released, it received an Oscar nomination for Lionel Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Premiering in September-1956, The Best Things in Life Are Free was greeted with mixed to positive critical acclaim. Reviews said "the biggest new musical this year" and others said "a musical-comedy that could've been produced on a higher budget with bigger and better production numbers".
Being a musical, though a modestly produced one, the movie was fairly expensive to produce. The film ended with a budget of $2.86 million and made just over $4 million at the box office, earning $2,250,000 in North American rentals in 1956.
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