The Best of Everything

New York, fifty-nine. Three young women in the typing pool of a publishing house. Caroline took the job when her fiancé married someone else; what she actually wants is to edit. April has come from a small town and is waiting to be married. Gregg wants to act. All three face the same building, the same lift and the same men: bosses, producers, married lovers. Across the year each pays her own price, and none of them quite reaches what she came for. Jean Negulesco directs; two hours and one minute, adapted from Rona Jaffe's novel, with Hope Lange as Caroline, Suzy Parker as Gregg and Diane Baker as April. Joan Crawford plays Amanda Farrow, the hard editor. The novel had been a considerable bestseller.