cult film freak: diane baker

Written by James M. Tate / 5/14/2016 / No comments / diane baker , fifties , hope lange , joan crawford , june blair , martha hyer , melodrama , robert evans , romance , stephen boyd , suzy parker , twilight time

HOPE LANGE & DIANE BAKER SEEK OUT 'THE BEST OF EVERYTHING'

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Right when you think THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is about "The New Girl in The Office", another arrives much quicker, more naive, awkward, sweet and gentle; so basically, Diane Baker makes Hope Lange seem cool as a cucumber on her, or rather, their first day...<br>
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Our leading lady is fresh from a side role as Montgomery Clift's girl next door fiancee in THE YOUNG LIONS, and later, following TV's romantic comedy sitcom THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, she'd kickstart the vigilante DEATH WISH franchise by dying violently under the unrelenting fervor of Jeff Goldblum (who hates "rich c--ts!"). But this particular Hope isn't without a snag: contending with Joan Crawford, who plays the bitch boss, and quite naturally, too...<br>
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So with all that pop culture aside, we'll now settle down into this particularly breezy melodrama THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, one of those deliciously dated 1950's soap operatic motion pictures that, filmed in glorious Cinemascope and looking like a heavenly palette of vibrant colors, people resemble those bright, fantastical creatures of old Encyclopedias... And yet, throughout a still uptight era in post-War America, these girls aren't altogether prudish...<br>

diane baker, fifties, hope lange, joan crawford, june blair, martha hyer, melodrama, robert evans, romance, stephen boyd, suzy parker, twilight time

HOPE LANGE & DIANE BAKER SEEK OUT 'THE BEST OF EVERYTHING'

Twilight Time Blu Ray YEAR: 1959 Right when you think THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is about "The New Girl in The Office", another ar...

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