"The Best of Everything" (1970) TV series

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Directors:

Alan Pultz
Jack Wood

Writer:

James Lipton (head writer)

Release Date:

30 March 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Based on the novel and 1959 motion picture of the same name, this daytime soap focused on three career girls...

Cast

Victor Arnold	...	Ed Peronne
Bonnie Bee Buzzard	...	Joanna Key
James Davidson	...	Dexter Kay
M'el Dowd	...	Kate Farrow
Geraldine Fitzgerald	...	Violet Jordan (1970)
Barry Ford	...	Ken Lamont
Stanley Grover	...	Johnny Lamont
Stephen Grover	...	Johnny Lamont
Diane Kagan	...	Anne Carter
Ted Le Plat	...	Randy Wilson
Julie Mannix	...	April Morrison
Patty McCormack	...	Linda Warren (1970)
Gwenn Mitchell	...	Ginnie Curtis (as Gwen Mitchell)
Rochelle Oliver	...	Barbara Lamont
John Rust	...	Joshua Jordan
Gale Sondergaard	...	Amanda Key (1970)
Jean-Pierre Stewart	...	Mike Carter
Susan Sullivan	...	April Morrison

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

Based on Rona Jaffe's novel this weekday drama debuted on 30 March 1970 and was set in New York City.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Best of Everything (1959)

I Can't Seem to Find This Movie Anywhere,,,,

I thought I saw the 1971 version of The Best of Everything on Turner Classic Movies But I went on their web site and checked their huge data base, but I couldn't find it (only the 1959 version with a very sad looking Joan Crawford, I mean, her disappointment with these soap opera movies she was being offered by that point is written all over her face. Poor woman. At any rate I saw a portion of the movie on cable, I just don't know which "classic" movie station has it in their library. I'm a sucker for these Bell Jar type of movies. Good girl from good family & good school, Vassar or Radcliffe or something comes to the big city (NYC) & learns about sex & money & how to become derailed by all the mean boys out there. But they know how to dress like Grace Kelly (with or without Edith Head) & they learn how to be shrewd business women. The Best of Everything is a little Sylvia Plath, part Valley of the Dolls & of coarse Rona Jaffe.

At any rate they were playing it on cable a couple of months ago, but was never able to see the whole thing, finished or unfinished. Maybe it was on the not-so-good Fox Classic Movie station. If anybody knows anything, I live in the Los Angeles area (I know I hate it here too) and if it comes on cable in this area...maybe someone could check in & I'll get lucky, like I am a character in a Woody Allen movie...