The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything is a 1959 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. It stars Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker, Brian Aherne, Robert Evans, Louis Jourdan, and Joan Crawford. The film follows the professional careers and private lives of three women who share a small apartment in New York City and work together at a paperback publishing firm. Alfred Newman wrote the musical score, the last under his longtime contract as 20th Century-Fox's musical director.
Plot
Recent Radcliffe College graduate Caroline Bender is hired as a secretary at Fabian Publishing Company. She works for Amanda Farrow, a bitter, demanding, jealous middle-aged editor who resents Caroline and suspects she wants her job. She is having an affair with a married man, and it is not going well. Caroline meets two other young women in the typing pool April Morrison, a naïve, enthusiastic girl from Colorado, and Gregg Adams, a glamorous aspiring actress. They invite Caroline, who is commuting from her family's home In Connecticut, to share their tiny apartment.
More details
| author | Edith Sommer |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Jean Negulesco |
| editor | Robert L. Simpson |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | blind date business trip college graduate colorado connecticut divorce drive fire escape grate hotel room id lurk marriage proposal married man mentally unstable move nothing obsess one night playboy playboy lifestyle publish radcliffe college rich wife secretarial pool spoil stalk think type typing pool yell young women |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color |
| producer | Jerry Wald |
| theme | romantic drama |