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VHS : Best of EverythingIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker directed by: Jean Negulesco  List Price: $19.98 Price: $12.52 You Save: $7.46 (37%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303662541 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303662544 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: November 01, 1995 Running Time: 121 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1959 Sales Rank: 18411 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: 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. JOAN CRAWFORD "gives an excellently etched performance" (Hollywood Reporter) 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 LANG) who quickly gets her boss's (CRAWFORD) job and romances a handsome editor (STEPHEN BOYD); a Colorado secretary (DIANE BARKER) who falls for the wrong man (ROBERT EVANS); and a would be actress (SUZY PARKER) who's jilted by a two-timing director (LUIS JOURDAN). Slick and glossy, The Best Of Everything is a panorama of office politics before women's liberation. Amazon.com: The business world of the late Eisenhower era has rarely been more chicly drawn than in The Best of Everything, a juicy soap opera of the "working girl" school. Hope Lange lands a secretarial job at a Manhattan publishing house, eventually rising to an editorial position--but not before witnessing the back-biting, fanny-pinching snakepit that is the corporate workplace circa 1959. The spunky trio of Lange, Diane Baker, and Suzy Parker have romantic misadventures aplenty; Baker falls in with smarmy young Robert Evans (he had the tan even back then) and aspiring actress Parker lands in the clutches of heartbreaker stage director Louis Jourdan. The film's males are truly pigs in gray flannel suits. Beefcake slab Stephen Boyd offers solace to Lange, while Martha Hyer is around to provide yet another example of a woman suffering for the sake of a married man. Despite all the young female talent (redhead Parker was one of the most beautiful women of the fifties, a top model with a brief movie career), nobody holds serve when Joan Crawford bulls her way on screen. As a senior magazine editor (and a presumably cautionary example of the bitter career woman), Crawford eats the other actors like hors d'oeuvres. Jean Negulesco's staid direction never notices how trashy and plodding the material is, stressing instead the designer prettiness of CinemaScope: the interiors are a parade of cool colors and postwar furniture, the location shots of Manhattan streets are as gorgeous and nostalgic as an ancient engraving. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One of the BEST from the 50'sI haven't seen this film in sometime, which is why I decided to just get myself a copy. With Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Brian Aherne, Suzy Parker, Diane Baker, Martha Hyer and Louis Jourdan (just to name a few) in the cast....you can't go wrong. Somewhat dated since there is NO computer at all in the film (smile). Each character is so good and strong. Without going into alot of detail and spoiling it for others....I like how it ended very much. Great writing, script...everything ... Read More Rating:  - Good movieI watched the DVD right after reading the book, and I was aware of all of the little inconsistencies between the book and the movie (hair colors wrong, some male characters parts cut way down or not in the movie at all, etc.) The ending was also very different than the book. I liked the movie, but I probably would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't comparing it to the book all of the way through. Rating: - A true GIGGLE in the genre of GAGGLE OF STARLETS CinemaSometimes it seems that filmmakers who've made Bad Movies We Love have done so quite by chance: surely such hilarity, goes our thinking, is indeed unintentional, just a random collision of terrible taste and utter lack of knowledge about what makes good movies good. Other times, however, we wonder if there aren't talents who set out to make them on purpose. What else could possibly explain the whole delirious genre, A GAGGLE OF STARLETS Cinema? You know -- A Passel of Starlets Go To Europe (THREE ... Read More Rating: - Classic 50's Drama; A Few Extras"The Best of Everything" is a classic 1959 romantic melodrama featuring the best talent: Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, directed by Jean Negulesco, an Oscar-nominated title song sung by Johnny Mathis, and a beautiful score by Alfred Newman. Based on a novel by Rona Jaffe, it is the story of 5 young girls working their way up the steno pool at a publishing firm in New York City. The movie mainly focuses on these 3: Gregg (Parker) who really wants to be an actress, April (Baker) ... Read More Rating: - Another VC AndrewsI did enjoy the film which I opted to watch instead of reading the book. I was disappointed to see the similarities between this movie and her other book "the roomating season". Accidental death of character, married men and adultery, broken big city dreams. There was no real originality maybe I should have read this one before the other but the premise was the same. Lose of youth and innocence to the cruelties of city life. Much like everyone's favorite author VC Andrews Jaffe simply reminded us of ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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