The Best of Everything (1959)

Directed by

Jean Negulesco

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 01m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three young women working at a New York publishing house navigate their careers and love lives in the late 1950s. The film follows their separate romantic entanglements and the pressures they face in the city.

ambitiousromanticdramaticbittersweetstylishhopefulmelancholic

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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