The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything is slick and glossy, like a color still on coated stock, and with no more depth, yet as popular entertainment it sustains interest.
The Best of Everything is slick and glossy, like a color still on coated stock, and with no more depth, yet as popular entertainment it sustains interest.
A subtitle might be Except Men – Who Are Beasts. Amanda (Joan Crawford), a successful career woman in the book publishing field that is the film’s setting, is having an unsuccessful affair with a married man (unseen). One of her co-workers, Barbara (Martha Hyer), is also involved in an affair with another married man, fellow editor Sidney (Donald Harron). Gregg (Suzy Parker), one of the firm’s secretaries, is having an affair with stage producer David (Louis Jourdan), who jilts her to take up (extra-maritally, of course) with Judy (Myrna Hansen).
To continue, April (Diane Baker) becomes pregnant (out of wedlock) by Dexter (Robert Evans), who proposes they solve this problem by visiting an abortionist. Caroline (Hope Lange) is jilted by Eddie (Brett Halsey) for a rich girl, but he suggests that he and Caroline set up housekeeping on the side. Sex, it will be seen, occupies a large part of this film.
The screenplay is not as blatant as all this sounds. It has taken Rona Jaffe’s novel and simmered it down somewhat. If not wit, it is still several cuts above office wisecracking.
The perfomances are generally good, although there is no real chance for developments. Parker, burdened with the most difficult emotional role, is least successful. Jean Negulesco’s direction is firm-handed at keeping the over-wrought story from getting over-heated.
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