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6.6/10
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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.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.1K
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- Director
- Writers
- Edith Sommer(screenplay)
- Mann Rubin(screenplay)
- Rona Jaffe(novel)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Edith Sommer(screenplay)
- Mann Rubin(screenplay)
- Rona Jaffe(novel)
- Stars
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
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- Director
- Writers
- Edith Sommer(screenplay)
- Mann Rubin(screenplay)
- Rona Jaffe(novel)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
With her unofficial fiancé Eddie Harris studying in England for a year, Radcliffe educated Caroline Bender decides to get her first ever job as a secretary at Manhattan located Fabian Publishing, which offers its employees "the best of everything". There, she finds her story is somewhat similar to all the other secretaries, who are biding their time in the secretarial pool either before getting married - to a current or future beau - or moving on to their dream job. In the latter category is aspiring actress Gregg Adams, who with fellow secretary, the naive and inexperienced April Morrison, become Caroline's new roommates. Caroline also finds that as a secretary to the editors, she has to learn the special needs and foibles of each. They include the "witch" Amanda Farrow whose demanding exterior masks a truly lonely woman, the aging Lothario Fred Shalimar, and the understanding Mike Rice, whose best friend is a bottle of booze. The path to true happiness for each of Caroline, Gregg and April has its bumps along the way. After an incident in her personal life as well as one at work, Caroline's life plans change to thoughts of being one of the editors. Both Amanda and Mike hope that Caroline doesn't get this wish, each hoping for a different reason. —Huggo
- Taglines
- THESE ARE THE GIRLS who want the best of everything... but often settle for a lot less!
- Genres
- Certificate
- Approved
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaJoan 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.
- GoofsA huge palm tree is visible during a company picnic supposedly set on an estate near New York City - a botanical impossibility.
- Quotes
Amanda Farrow: Now you and your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Playboy's Penthouse: Episode #1.1 (1959)
- SoundtracksThe 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
Top review
What Is Best For Everyone?
The Best of Everything is a high gloss large screen soap opera which follows the careers of four career women, Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Diane Baker, and Martha Hyer at a New York publishing firm. What's the best for some women is not necessarily the best for all.
Presiding over this group of young fillies is wise old mare Joan Crawford who's been around the track a few times on screen and in real life. She looks right at home as the boss lady as well she should have at this point.
Around the time she was making The Best of Everything Joan Crawford became a widow when her fourth husband, Alfred Steele died. It was a particularly traumatic event for her, she woke up one morning and found him dead in bed next to her. She inherited all of his stock in Pepsi Cola where he was the board chairman and during the same period as The Best of Everything was being made, she wound up the queen bee at Pepsi Cola. Life does sometimes imitate art. So that authority as she barks out dictation and coffee orders to Hope Lange rings real true.
In fact all the women here with the exception of Lange are in for some rough sledding. It's rough for Lange too, but she literally makes the best of everything.
What a collection of stinkers the men are in this film. The best of them, Stephen Boyd, is a heavy drinker. The others Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Brett Halsey, are as slimy a collection of rodents as ever gathered for one film.
I can't forget Brian Aherne either who's the fanny pinching head of this publishing firm. Half that office would have sexual harassment suits going today.
Some nice location shots of New York in the fifties make the film a real treat. Catch it by all means.
Presiding over this group of young fillies is wise old mare Joan Crawford who's been around the track a few times on screen and in real life. She looks right at home as the boss lady as well she should have at this point.
Around the time she was making The Best of Everything Joan Crawford became a widow when her fourth husband, Alfred Steele died. It was a particularly traumatic event for her, she woke up one morning and found him dead in bed next to her. She inherited all of his stock in Pepsi Cola where he was the board chairman and during the same period as The Best of Everything was being made, she wound up the queen bee at Pepsi Cola. Life does sometimes imitate art. So that authority as she barks out dictation and coffee orders to Hope Lange rings real true.
In fact all the women here with the exception of Lange are in for some rough sledding. It's rough for Lange too, but she literally makes the best of everything.
What a collection of stinkers the men are in this film. The best of them, Stephen Boyd, is a heavy drinker. The others Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Brett Halsey, are as slimy a collection of rodents as ever gathered for one film.
I can't forget Brian Aherne either who's the fanny pinching head of this publishing firm. Half that office would have sexual harassment suits going today.
Some nice location shots of New York in the fifties make the film a real treat. Catch it by all means.
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- Jan 14, 2007
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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