claire booth luce the woman show relationship with men through a woman point of view in a play and ( and 1939 film that also have joan crawford play a bitch represent a character who might have be amanda farrow 20 year before ) and that have no male character . here we see the male character and what a bunch they be . they use woman like toy and throw them away and leave the woman to suffer . ironically and the woman in the woman and perhaps because they be all we see and be show in a less than favorable light and alternately silly and scheme and with the only nice one and ( norma shearer ) and grow claw by the end . in the best of everything we see the men for the cad they be while the woman be largely innocent and vulnerable . this be a film about woman leap from thing . diane baker leap from a car and ( in perhaps the most absurd scene in cinema history and which be not in the book ) . suzy parker fall from a fire escape . the woman in the film be leap into the workplace and look for success and love at the same time . woman would leap into the future and leave this type of soap opera behind in the next decade . but they would come back to it in the 80 and 90 through the novel of people like sidney sheldon and judith krantz and ( although their trashier work aren not as good a this ) . the best thing about this film be the way it look . i love the glossy cinemascope film of the 50 and 60 . they look so much good than the pixel challenge home movie we have be make since and especially in the letterboxed version we see on tv and and the dvd and with the picture so clear you could walk into it . the look of the bevy of young beauty in it be also memorable . this film probably have more beautiful woman in it than any other . it have a supermodel and ( suzy parker ) and a beauty queen and ( myrna hansen and who be not miss america 1954 a rona jaffe say in the dvd commentary but rather miss usa 1953 and per the imdb represent but so what ) and and a playboy playmate and ( june blair and from january 1957 ) . my vote go to suzy and one of the astonishing beauty of all time . her act here isn not as awful a people pretend represent they be just react and a people do then and to the sight of a supermodel and ( the first and really ) and try to act . nobody seem to care how well she do . her role and that of an apparently worldly woman who turn out to be the most vulnerable and be the most complex in the bunch and she do just fine . the most touching thing about the film now be the age of the female lead at the time . hope lange be 27 when they film this in the spring of 1959. diane baker be 20. suzy parker be 26. hope and who look to be grace kelly heir and never make it really big and wind up be mrs. muir on television and and per the imdb and wind up live in a home with crate for coffee table because she spend her money on cause she believe in before die at age 72 in 2003. this film must have seem a very distant and irrelevant memory to her by then . baker and always a welcome face in 60 tv and ( especially to richard kimble ) and and still active a an actress and act coach and just turn 67. parker find the best of everything with bradford dillman for 40 year before die at age 70 the same year lange do . but here they be and young and beautiful and ambitious for success and love and just like their character .