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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 421685" data-attributes="member: 57984">I&#039;m currently watching Jean Negulesco&#039;s THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (1959) in which Hope Lange arrives in the Big Apple to become a new secretary at a publishing house of some sort. Joan Crawford plays the office manager who&#039;s a bitch, mistreating Miss Lange (word is, life imitated art).Christina said Joan&#039;s role closest to her real self was that of Eva in QUEEN BEE. And I don&#039;t doubt it. But her part in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING has got to come a close second (except that Crawford wasn&#039;t an office manager in real life).The movie itself is seemingly-breezy late-&#039;50s gauzy optimism and busily-elegant post-war aspiration, laced with a forlorn pointlessness unavoidable at the time; the locations and sets are shiny, pristine and glamorous in keeping with its period, an era when cars and phones suddenly begin looking like something from a child&#039;s nursery, all easter egg hues when they&#039;d all been utilitarian black or cream just a couple of years earlier.All the young women in the office are running around chasing after their next (first) husband (or &quot;romance&quot; if she&#039;s just no good) or professional success (as long as it doesn&#039;t compromise her femininity) to different degrees. I won&#039;t say Crawford&#039;s scenes are the best necessarily. But her saucy line, &quot;You and your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell !,&quot; when she&#039;s complaining on the phone to her married lover about his unavailability, is the highlight of the film.Everything is done in the service of Crawford, and yet she&#039;s angry about it.<img src="https://www.joancrawfordbest.com/59best18feb6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.gvju2ddDulgQw4VU1gkRMQHaDH?rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 877px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 421685, member: 57984"] I'm currently watching Jean Negulesco's THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (1959) in which Hope Lange arrives in the Big Apple to become a new secretary at a publishing house of some sort. Joan Crawford plays the office manager who's a bitch, mistreating Miss Lange (word is, life imitated art). Christina said Joan's role closest to her real self was that of Eva in QUEEN BEE. And I don't doubt it. But her part in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING has got to come a close second (except that Crawford wasn't an office manager in real life). The movie itself is seemingly-breezy late-'50s gauzy optimism and busily-elegant post-war aspiration, laced with a forlorn pointlessness unavoidable at the time; the locations and sets are shiny, pristine and glamorous in keeping with its period, an era when cars and phones suddenly begin looking like something from a child's nursery, all easter egg hues when they'd all been utilitarian black or cream just a couple of years earlier. All the young women in the office are running around chasing after their next (first) husband (or "romance" if she's just no good) or professional success (as long as it doesn't compromise her femininity) to different degrees. I won't say Crawford's scenes are the best necessarily. But her saucy line, "[I]You and your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell !,[/I]" when she's complaining on the phone to her married lover about his unavailability, is the highlight of the film. Everything is done in the service of Crawford, and yet she's angry about it. [IMG]https://www.joancrawfordbest.com/59best18feb6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="877px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.gvju2ddDulgQw4VU1gkRMQHaDH?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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