The Best of Everything

October. 09,1959      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.

Hope Lange as  Caroline Bender
Stephen Boyd as  Mike Rice
Suzy Parker as  Gregg Adams
Martha Hyer as  Barbara Lamont
Diane Baker as  April Morrison
Brian Aherne as  Fred Shalimar
Robert Evans as  Dexter Key
Brett Halsey as  Eddie Harris
Donald Harron as  Sidney Carter
Ted Otis as  Dr. Ronnie Wood

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Reviews

Cubussoli
1959/10/09

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Cebalord
1959/10/10

Very best movie i ever watch

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Comwayon
1959/10/11

A Disappointing Continuation

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Brainsbell
1959/10/12

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

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daoldiges
1959/10/13

If there's one thing this film does well, its capturing the appeal and allure of New York City. This is a fun time-capsule of a film from this period and it beautifully captures some truly iconic images of midtown Manhattan, and a couple other shots of the city. The beautifully stylized representation of office life, the cloths and apartments of NYC explains why these girls along with millions of others like them dreamed of coming to New York City to achieve their dreams - be it a dream job as a successful executive or a rich husband. As for the story itself, it is a bit cliched and is filled with some stereotypes. Despite some issues I think this film is great fun and worth checking out.

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utgard14
1959/10/14

Overlong soap opera with a nice cast. It chronicles the lives of three working girls. In particular their relationships with terrible men. I'm not the biggest fan of soaps but I can get into them if they are fun. Unfortunately, between all the bitterness and misandry, there's not much fun to be had here. It's also very predictable. I notice the DVD cover prominently features Joan Crawford as though she's the star. She isn't, in case you're a Joan fan. Hope Lange is the star. Joan plays a supporting part for the first time in decades. She's still the best thing about the film. I didn't feel connected to or care about the characters at all. Despite the melodramatic nature of the film, it really offers nothing titillating enough to recommend it on that basis. So it's basically just a garden variety soap with nice production values. Watchable but nothing special.

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guilfisher-1
1959/10/15

This 1959 soap opera film takes us into the lives and loves of three young women in the publishing world as secretaries. This follows the same idea as THREE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN a few years before. This takes place in New York while COINS takes place in Rome, Italy. Our three beauties are Hope Lange, in her first starring role, Suzy Parker and Diane Baker. Lange does well and holds her own opposite some strong veterans in the business, namely Joan Crawford. Suzy plays an obsessive woman who has a hard time losing her beau. Hard to believe that anyone could reject this beauty for any reason, but Louis Jourdan, her heart throb, does just this. Sort of takes you back to Paul Neuman rejecting the gorgeous Elizabth Taylor in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, doesn't it? Diane Baker, the third damsel in distress, meets and dates Robert Evans, before he became the producer, and husband to Ali MacGraw, he is known for. Hope's boyfriend from home, played by newcomer Brett Halsey, is promising to marry her. She also meets Stephen Boyd, a fellow worker, who has interests in our Hope. All three ladies have their drama ahead of them. Crawford almost steals the film. Her presence and her usual strong bitchy self is fun to watch. Veteran actor Brian Aherne plays one of the bosses with a yen for pinching our leading ladies' back side. He's delightfully charming. Also in the cast is Martha Hyer, wasted in a thankless role never really explored. Too bad as I like this actress who never seems to get that one role to distinguish her abilities. She has a crush on a married man in the office played by Donald Harron, whom I had the pleasure to work with in a couple of Shakespeare plays in NYC. He is a distinguished actor that is wasted in this film also.All in all it's great fun, in Technicolor and cinemascope, directed by Jean Negulesco.

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bullterrier100
1959/10/16

Watching this hilariously retro but very entertaining career girl tale, I was floored by Joan Crawford's first appearance. All I could think initially was, "My God, it's the same face as Michael Jackson in his notorious booking photo!" About 34 minutes into the movie, Diane Baker and Hope Lange get out of a cab in Greenwich Village. As they walk down the street, you can see part of a sign in back of them for the Stonewall Bar -- scene of the epochal "riots" that are considered the trigger for the modern gay rights movement.Speaking of Baker and taxis, I had to laugh when she gets into one and tells the cabbie, "56th and Sutton Place, please -- and be careful of the bumps." Can you imagine the reaction to that from a driver in today's Manhattan?! She says that, of course, because she's pregnant and doesn't want to hurt the fetus. But that doesn't stop her from JUMPING OUT OF A MOVING CAR when she finds out Bob Evans wants her to have an abortion! Well, they had to find a way for her to lose the baby (1959 and all).Sue Carson is delightful as Mary Agnes. Why was this her only movie? There is no biographical information on her in IMDb.

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