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The Best of Everything

  • 1959
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Brian Aherne, Diane Baker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Martha Hyer, Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, and Suzy Parker in The Best of Everything (1959)
An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.
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An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

  • Director
    • Jean Negulesco
  • Writers
    • Edith Sommer
    • Mann Rubin
    • Rona Jaffe
  • Stars
    • Hope Lange
    • Stephen Boyd
    • Suzy Parker
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    2.2K
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    • Director
      • Jean Negulesco
    • Writers
      • Edith Sommer
      • Mann Rubin
      • Rona Jaffe
    • Stars
      • Hope Lange
      • Stephen Boyd
      • Suzy Parker
    • 64User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 2 nominations total

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    Diane Baker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Brett Halsey, Martha Hyer, Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, and Suzy Parker in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford, and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford, and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)
    The Best of Everything (1959)
    Diane Baker and Robert Evans in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Robert Evans in The Best of Everything (1959)
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    Robert Evans and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Stephen Boyd and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Stephen Boyd and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Robert Evans in The Best of Everything (1959)
    Joan Crawford and Hope Lange in The Best of Everything (1959)

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    Hope Lange
    Hope Lange
    • Caroline Bender
    Stephen Boyd
    Stephen Boyd
    • Mike Rice
    Suzy Parker
    Suzy Parker
    • Gregg Adams
    Martha Hyer
    Martha Hyer
    • Barbara Lamont
    Diane Baker
    Diane Baker
    • April Morrison
    Brian Aherne
    Brian Aherne
    • Fred Shalimar
    Robert Evans
    Robert Evans
    • Dexter Key
    Brett Halsey
    Brett Halsey
    • Eddie Harris
    Donald Harron
    Donald Harron
    • Sidney Carter
    Sue Carson
    • Mary Agnes
    Linda Hutchings
    Linda Hutchings
    • Jane
    Lionel Kane
    • Paul Landers
    Ted Otis
    Ted Otis
    • Dr. Ronnie Wood
    Louis Jourdan
    Louis Jourdan
    • David Savage
    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Amanda Farrow
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Leading Woman in Play
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Austin
    • Bill
    • (uncredited)
    Joseph Bardo
    Joseph Bardo
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean Negulesco
    • Writers
      • Edith Sommer
      • Mann Rubin
      • Rona Jaffe
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    • Trivia
      Joan Crawford, then on the board of directors of Pepsi, managed to swing a brief quasi product plug for the soft drink by having an unmistakable Pepsi machine (with the red, white, and blue Pepsi logo, but sans the word "Pepsi") installed in the secretaries' on-screen break room.
    • Goofs
      In the scene when Hope Lange tells Diane Baker "he's ten foot tall to me" while walking down the street, several people... two men and two young boys... look into the camera, smiling (they were obviously filming with a camera hidden in a car during these scenes as those people weren't extras).
    • Quotes

      Amanda Farrow: Now you and your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell!

    • Connections
      Featured in Playboy's Penthouse: Episode #1.1 (1959)
    • Soundtracks
      The Best of Everything
      by Sammy Cahn and Alfred Newman

      Johnny Mathis sings during the opening credits

      Also sung by a chorus at the end

      Played often in the score

    User reviews64

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    8/10
    Good, of its kind
    Caroline Bender (Hope Lange) is just killing time getting a job. Her real ambition is to marry Eddie and have a baby.

    April (Diane Baker) is too innocent to stay that way for long and falls in love too easily, a dangerous combo.

    Greg (Suzy Parker) is a go-getter and wants to be an actress.

    All three are doomed for dramatics in 'The Best of Everything', a 1959 soap opera/morality play/sometimes solid movie that is aging by the second.

    Set in the cut-throat world of paperback publishing, its not as trashy as "Valley of the Dolls" but not as vanilla as "Three Coins in the Fountain."

    The men in the mix - Brian Aherne, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan and Robert Evans - are slick, well-dressed and no good, for the most part. Aherne is the resident sexual offender - will pinch anything walking by, and makes unwanted advances right and left. His character is offensive as hell, but its not played seriously at all. Harassment hadn't been discovered yet, I guess. Boyd works there, too, although you never see him actually doing anything. He's too busy being older, wiser and drunker. Evans is abroad just so Diane Baker can suffer in style - he's a rich kid who's gotten her in 'trouble' so instead of marrying her, as promised, he's taking her to get an 'operation.'

    Jourdan is a director who mistakenly has an affair with Parker. They share a fight scene which is fairly no-holds barred, in a movie like this anyway, but the scene is ultimately ruined by Parker's histronics. She ends up nearly stalking him, and she really didn't deserve such a lousy fate, her bad acting notwithstanding.

    Joan Crawford breathes fire as Amanda Farrow, the resident 'witch' who is automatically rude and dismissive of any of her legion of secretaries. Well they are younger, aren't they? Isn't that sufficient reason to hate a person? Caroline doesn't think so, as she admirably stands up to Miss Farrow every chance she gets. Crawford only gets to let loose once, when she tells her married boyfriend 'you can your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell' and slams down the phone. You never get to see the poor soul who dare crosses her.

    Martha Hyer's 'storyline', as it were, is extremely weak, and she is painfully over-the-top as an unmarried mother. Short of wearing a huge "W" (for 'whore') on her cardigan, she walks around like a pathetic mess for most of her screen time. Even worse, she is not given the courtesy of having it all 'tied up', one way or the other, at the end. It won't matter that much, but still..

    Its painfully obvious this all took place in a totally different world. People were nicer to one another for the most part and work was not a drag but something exciting, for a girl from outside NYC anyway.

    One unconvincing drunk scene aside, Hope Lange helps it seem reasonably real as Caroline, who at least has more than one side to her character.

    I admire that women are seen having an opinion, a chance and a choice. Not that its not wrapped in a nice bow, but it makes some points for equality. In 1959 that was probably noteworthy and possibly controversial. 7/10.
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    • Release date
      • October 9, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Najbolje od svega
    • Filming locations
      • Sheridan Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Jerry Wald Productions
      • The Company of Artists
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 1 minute
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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