# "The Best of Everything" (1959) alert! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225 "2012-02-08T20:02:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/1 "2012-02-08T20:02:28Z")
One of my \*favorite \*sudsy Women’s Films is on TCM this coming Sat. (Feb. 11) at 5:30 p.m., East Coast time. One of the best “ambitious young career girls in the big city” sagas. _The Best of Everything_ is one of those good/bad movies, like _The Bad Seed_; equal dollops of unintentional camp and genuine wonderfulness. Plus “gowns by Jean Louis!” No woman can really suffer beautifully unless she is sporting the floaty chiffons and tailored suits of the future Mr. Loretta Young. And one of the most lush, melodic soundtracks of the era, by the great Alfred Newman; it is one of the most-played on my iPod, raising me to a Babe Paley-caliber sense of elegance as I go about my errands. \*And \*one of Joan Crawford’s best performances, as the Mean Boss (there is no way Meryl Streep did not study her frame by frame for _The Devil Wears Prada_). ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/2 "2012-02-09T20:43:14Z")
thanks for the tip. Just told Tivo to record. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/3 "2012-02-09T20:47:27Z")
“You college girls all think it’s so easy–you’ll breeze in and become editors overnight!” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/4 "2012-02-09T22:05:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “You college girls all think it’s so easy–you’ll breeze in and become editors overnight!” I remembered this one the second you quoted the line! Doesn’t it follow a scene where Joan Crawford is deliberately putting her unfortunate new admin through the wringer by issuing impossible requests? I’m a secretary and have had frequent situations just like this. Poor thing! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/5 "2012-02-09T23:28:14Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Doesn’t it follow a scene where Joan Crawford is deliberately putting her unfortunate new admin through the wringer by issuing impossible requests? “Haven’t you forgotten something [her steno pad]? Or were you planning to beat it out on a native drum?” Joannie was \*great \*in this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-of-everything-1959-alert/612225/6 "2012-02-10T14:00:01Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “You college girls all think it’s so easy–you’ll breeze in and become editors overnight!” Well, _I_ did. Of course, I was editing obituaries. And Jean Louis never showed up. I did wear jeans though . . . does that count?