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The Best of Everything

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Three ambitious working girls of 1950s Manhattan share their secretarial work and later a home together: Gregg (Suzy Parker) is an aspiring actress whose director is using her; April (Diane Baker) is left pregnant and alone; and Caroline (Hope Lange) finds solace in the arms of an editor (Stephen Boyd). Together the three contend with romantic disappointments, office politics and the threat that their dreams for a fulfilling career will be cut short by marriage, children and inertia.

Critics Reviews

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm May 21, 2022
2/4
...a frustrating time capsule. Go to Full Review
Phil Gordon California Eagle Jun 18, 2020
The picture is done in color by DeLuxe and features some fantastically chic attire worn beautifully by the many members of the cast. Go to Full Review
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Aug 25, 2006
4/5
Classic Fox '50s soaper ... campy and fun. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jan 4, 2006
B-
Based on Rona Jaffe's trashy best-seller, this glossy Fox melodrama has an all-star cast, with Crawford as castrating boss and four appealing actresses: Hope Lange, Suzy parker, Diane Baker, and Martha Hyer. Go to Full Review
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Mar 18, 2004
2/5
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 8, 2004
C-
It all seems trite and overly melodramatic. Go to Full Review
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Han G Aug 2, 2017 The Best of Everything is an excellent film. It is about the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups. Joan Crawford and Hope Lange give amazing performances. The screenplay is well written. Jean Negulesco did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the drama and romance. The Best of Everything is a must see. See more
Finn L Jul 21, 2017 Three secretaries in NYC in the 60s. Two have happy endings. With Joan Crawford.
Kylo S Jul 11, 2017 I'm sure at the time this film was shocking both for the crispness of the NY scenery as well as the frank attitudes about love and romance in the office. That frankness no doubt owes a debt to Preminger's Moon is Blue for cutting through the "Hollywood Code". See more
Poe P Jul 11, 2017 Very much of its time as the inside story of a a publishing house. the women who work there, and the men who use and abuse them. Acting is above average and the plot isn't totally predictable. Remember, though, that the code was still in effect so punches were pulled. See more
Harry S May 1, 2017 As a Time Capsule look at the waning years of the post-war '50's woman, before widespread use of The Pill, a dozen years before Title IX that changed everything, this is a fascinating film. As an 8-yr old at the time, these gals are remembered on the occasional venture downtown & into pop's office bldg in the South. Wish women still dressed & looked like this - no longer do they go to church so femininely attired. Maybe in NYC. Would like to have been more aware of their overweening plots for catching a man - would've been interesting to insert a few plot twists to make it more fun. The male office predation though, that needed to go, for sure. Very unattractive, disgusting even. So, as a movie ... not fantastic. As a look back in time, at the time, with Donna Reed at the top of the Ratings, back into the Trumplican fiction of when America was great again, fascinating. (And the Color by DeLuxe was nice, too! ... seriously.) See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis Three ambitious working girls of 1950s Manhattan share their secretarial work and later a home together: Gregg (Suzy Parker) is an aspiring actress whose director is using her; April (Diane Baker) is left pregnant and alone; and Caroline (Hope Lange) finds solace in the arms of an editor (Stephen Boyd). Together the three contend with romantic disappointments, office politics and the threat that their dreams for a fulfilling career will be cut short by marriage, children and inertia.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Producer
Jerry Wald
Screenwriter
Mann Rubin, Edith R. Sommer
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 9, 1959, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 6, 2014
Runtime
2h 1m
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