The Best of Everything (1959 film)
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Screenplay by |
Edith Sommer Mann Rubin |
| Based on |
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe |
| Starring |
Hope Lange Diane Baker Suzy Parker Joan Crawford Robert Evans Stephen Boyd Louis Jourdan Brian Aherne Martha Hyer |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Edited by | Robert Simpson |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
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121 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,965,000 |
The Best of Everything is a 1959 romantic drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, and starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Joan Crawford. The movie relates the professional careers and private lives of three women who share a small apartment in New York City and work together in a paperback publishing firm.
The screenplay was written by Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, which was adapted from the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald. Alfred Newman wrote the musical score, the last under his longtime contract as Fox's musical director. The film has been released on VHS and DVD.
Caroline Bender (Lange) is an ambitious young secretary in a publishing firm who, when jilted, finds consolation in the arms of editor Mike Rice (Boyd). Gregg Adams (Parker) is a typist and an aspiring actress romantically involved with stage director David Savage (Jourdan). When the director dumps her, she is devastated, falls from a fire escape on which she used to lurk outside his apartment, and dies.
April Morrison (Baker) winds up pregnant, and jumps from a car when her unborn infant's father, Dexter Key (Evans), refuses to marry her and urges an abortion.
All three women are under the supervision of editor Amanda Farrow (Crawford), an exacting professional and a frustrated woman who marries, leaves the firm, and returns when she finds the simple life of home and marriage not to her liking.
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