The Best of Everything (1959) is a 20th Century-Fox feature film starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, and Joan Crawford in a story about 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 based upon the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. The film was directed by Jean Negu...
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The Best of Everything (1959) is a 20th Century-Fox feature film starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, and Joan Crawford in a story about 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 based upon 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 to 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 (Stephen Boyd). Gregg Adams (Parker) is a typist and an aspiring actress romantically involved with stage director David Savage (Louis Jourdan). When the director dumps her, she is devastated, falls from a fire escape and...
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