The Best of Everything

4/15/2026

'Caroline' (Hope Lange) is at a loose end with her boyfriend (Brett Halsey) studying in the UK, so she takes up an opportunity to work at the esteemed 'Fabian' publishing company. She is to be secretary to one of it's editors, 'Miss Farrow' (Joan Crawford) and day one isn't exactly stellar. Her new boss turns out to be something of an harridan. Abrupt, rude and aloof: she offers 'Caroline' none of the welcome or sympathies she might have expected from a female boss. The more she looks a round her, the more she realises that most of the other ladies in the place are either content with their respective lot or just waiting until the wedding bells ring and their families duly follow. She quite swiftly befriends would-be actress 'Gregg' (Suzy Parker) and the fairly naive 'April' (Diane Baker)