The Best of Everything
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Movie Reviews of The Best of Everything
Movie Review: OH, YES... TAKE ME BACK TO '59
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, please take me back to 1959, to New York in 1959, or even back to Rio de Janeiro, a couple of years before, where I met Rona Jaffe practically every single night at the then world-famous "Sacha's" nightclub, where Rona was already drafting her novel mentally...
When the film started shooting the exteriors in front of the Seagram's building, one could actually walk-up to lovely Suzy Parker and chat with her about how real was the "new morality" of the liberated New York girls in the executive suites, decades before Sex and the City became the post-mortem of the sexual revolution of the Sixties.
At night we had the many parties thrown by Negulesco and his charming wife, while Stephen Boyd was being charming to my wife, Brazilian actress Mariza Woodward, featured in LIFE Magazine as one of the most beautiful gals in Rio.
Oh, yes, take me back!
And if you were not there then, if you were not even born then, do get this DVD and visit New York 1959 and see how charmingly it all started, despite where it eventually ended.
Movie Review: SOAPY SAGA THAT RIVALS PEYTON PLACE, WITH AN ORANGE-HAIRED JOAN CRAWFORD!
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1959 soapy saga does indeed have everything: lecherous old geezers making passes at sweet young things, bitter old hags sleeping with married men, bosses who take their frustrations out on underlings, and sex! sex! sex! Rona Jaffe's bestselling book --- think Peyton Place set in Mdhattan --- tells the tale of three young woman who work in the publishing world of NYC ... modern 9-to-5 gals who dream, dare and damn themselves, while wearing terrific Oscar-nominated clothes that they couldn't afford on a secretary's salary. The cast includes Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Louis Jordan, Diane baker and Stephen Boyd; who better to add extra star power than Joan Crawford as a chain-smoking, orange-haired senior editor who treats her employees the way her lover treats her --- like dirt. Sometimes the best films are the worse. Thank God.Movie Review: Great Time Capsule of Chauvinistic 1959
Summary: 5 Stars
An entertaining soap opera, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING succeeds especially because of its brilliant capturing of 1959. The attitude, the fashion, the lifestyle, the vernacular and (both ennervating and bittersweet) the culture.
Once you've enjoyed the movie itself, sit back and relish the great commentary track with both the original novel's author and an amusing film historian. You'll get quite a few chuckles along with fascinating facts about everything pertaining to the film and the times and circumstances around which it was made.
Wonderful to see so many great stars in all their colorful glory! Also included, a trailer and newsreel. Beautiful trasnfer. A first rate DVD experience.
Movie Review: Hope Springs Eternal
Summary: 5 Stars
A fun picture to watch. I love old films showing big cities (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco) in the 1950's. I love the sights and the sounds. Anyway, the storyline is "logical" (unlike like alot of films shown today) and quite easy to follow. I call it a "sucker" film because you will be "sucked" in no time and be glad you did. All the ladies were attractive, but of special note for me is Hope Lange. I though she was VERY beautiful and looked outstanding in her outfits (especially the gray/white dress). Sorry to learn that she is no longer with us but if she were I would tell her I thought she was a very beautiful young woman. A perfect film for a Sunday afternoon, a viewer with a heart is required.Movie Review: Must-see "women's picture"
Summary: 5 Stars
I really miss the genre loosely called "women's pictures" that combined wonderfully lurid storylines (with laugh-inducing Hays Code cleaned-up dialog) and major, MAJOR fashion. Unfortunately nowadays the closest we get is the really crude "Sex and the City" whose scripts leave nothing to the imagination and where the "fashion" comes direct from Walmart."The Best of Everything" scores major points for a great looking cast, dynamite clothes,and wonderfully trashy storylines. If this isn't the ultimate popcorn movie, WHAT IS??!!?? Ladies, invite your friends over, rustle up some major munchies, fire up this DVD and have a WHALE of a GOOD TIME!!!