the best of everything be a high gloss large screen soap opera which follow the career of four career woman and hope lange and suzy parker and diane baker and and martha hyer at a new york publishing firm . what the best for some woman be not necessarily the best for all . preside over this group of young filly be wise old mare joan crawford who be around the track a few time on screen and in real life . she look right at home a the bos lady as well she should have at this point . around the time she be make the best of everything joan crawford become a widow when her fourth husband and alfred steele die . it be a particularly traumatic event for her and she wake up one morning and find him dead in bed next to her . she inherit all of his stock in pepsi cola where he be the board chairman and during the same period a the best of everything be be make and she wind up the queen bee at pepsi cola . life do sometimes imitate art . so that authority a she bark out dictation and coffee order to hope lange ring real true . in fact all the woman here with the exception of lange be in for some rough sledding . it rough for lange too and but she literally make the best of everything . what a collection of stinker the men be in this film . the best of them and stephen boyd and be a heavy drinker . the others louis jourdan and robert evans and and brett halsey and be a slimy a collection of rodent a ever gather for one film . i can not forget brian aherne either who the fanny pinch head of this publishing firm . half that office would have sexual harassment suit go today . some nice location shot of new york in the fifty make the film a real treat . catch it by all mean .