The Best of Everything (1958

1958 in literature

The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.*First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....

) is the first novel by Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe was a popular American novelist, publishing numerous works from 1958-2003. She may have been best known for her controversial novel, Mazes and Monsters...

. It is the story of five young employees of a New York publishing company.

Adaptions

In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name

The Best of Everything (1959 film)

The Best of Everything is a 20th Century-Fox film starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Joan Crawford...

 released by Twentieth Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....

 and starring Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.-Early life:...

, Hope Lange

Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American stage, film, and television actress.- Early life :Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut...

, Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd was an Irish actor, from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in around 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in Ben-Hur.-Biography:...

, Suzy Parker

Suzy Parker

Suzy Parker was an American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s when she appeared on the cover of dozens of magazines, advertisements, and in movie and television roles.She appeared in several Revlon advertisements, but...

, Robert Evans

Robert Evans (film producer)

Robert Evans is an American film producer, best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown.-Early life and acting career:...

, Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne was a British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.-Early life and stage career:...

 and Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....

. Longtime Fox music director Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...

 wrote the final musical score of his contract with the studio for the film.

The novel was also adapted into a soap opera of the same name

The Best of Everything (TV series)

The Best of Everything is an American daytime soap opera which aired on ABC from March 30, 1970 to September 25, 1970. The series was a spin-off of the 1959 film of the same name.-Plot:...

 written by James Lipton

James Lipton

James Lipton is an American writer, poet, composer, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994...

. The show aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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from March 30 to September 25, 1970.