The Best of Everything (1959)
The Best of Everything (1959)
BDRip | MKV | 720 x 306 | x264 @ 928 Kbps | 121 min | 989 Mb
Audio: English AAC 2.0 @ 153 Kbps | Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Drama, Romance
BDRip | MKV | 720 x 306 | x264 @ 928 Kbps | 121 min | 989 Mb
Audio: English AAC 2.0 @ 153 Kbps | Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rona Jaffe's best-selling novel comes to life in this witty tale about the personal and professional lives of the men and women in a New York publishing firm. Heading a huge cast is Joan Crawford as a tough-talking editor who can't seem to win at love. There are a few more interesting stories around the office than there are in the manuscripts at Fabian Publishers. Among the principal players: a new secretary (Hope Lange) who quickly gets her boss's (Crawford) job and romances a handsome editor (Stephen Boyd); a Colorado secretary (Diane Baker) who falls for the wrong man (Robert Evans); and a would be actress (Suzy Parker) who's jilted by a two-timing director (Louis Jourdan). Slick and glossy, The Best Of Everything is a panorama of office politics before women's liberation.
I feel very strongly that this film was just like Waiting to Exhale with white females in the 1950's. As in Waiting to Exhale, all of the female characters got mixed up with men who were either married or no good. The only difference, besides the obvious, was that there wasn't much humor in this film. I would even say that it was tragic. Only one of the male characters seemed to be kind and sincere (Hope Lange's guy), but even then there was conflict in this relationship.
The story was about three young women who shared an apartment together and who had hopes and dreams of success. Unfortunately for them, romance didn't seem to come easy although they were young, intelligent and attractive. This movie could be called a tearjerker with the saddest part involving Suzy Parker's character whose obsession of an ex-boyfriend leads to tragedy.
This is a must see.
The Best of Everything (1959)
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