that a bad and raunchy and predictable and tacky and salacious soap opera . the best of everything be just such a guilty pleasure for me and something along the line of valley of the doll . i mean and best have everything . somebody get pregnant out of wedlock ( when the last time you hear that phrase . ) and there be affair everywhere and drinking and backstabbing and jealousy and and even a tragic but not altogether unexpected death . caroline bender ( hope lange ) and mike rice ( the delicious stephen boyd ) be the centerpiece of the going on . their chemistry be immediate and be the glue that keep this film from become too fragmented . suzy parker and the off the chart gorgeous ex fashion model and appear a gregg adam and an aspiring stage actress and a role that and accord to any biography i have ever read about her and be apparently not much of a stretch . but parker do a surprisingly credible job here and more than hold her own in a couple of scene opposite louis jourdan who play david savage . jourdan probably take this role for the money and the special screen credit because he be clearly head down the age star or have be road . diane baker be fine a naive and gullible april morrison and martha hyer a barbara lemont have a particularly juicy storyline and and film legend joan crawford chew her usual serving of scenery a amanda farrow and another role and like jourdan savage and that crawford likely take for the paycheck . there be some obviously date dialog and plot device ( this be 1959 ) and and the predictability of the soap opera genre . but if you like a good soap a i do and the best of everything will more than satisfy you .