Saturday, January 13, 2018

10 Movies to watch when you're missing Mad Men, Part 3

The next two movies on my Mad Men-related list are 6)The Best of Everything (1959) and 5)The Apartment (1960). Based on Rona Jaffe's best-selling novel of 1958 (of which Don is seen perusing in an early episode) The Best of Everything takes a look at the personal lives and professional careers of three independent young women who share an apartment in pre-feminist era New York. The three young hopefuls are making their way in the world and are at the mercy of several lotharios that appear throughout the film as supporting characters. Hope Lange stars as an ambitious secretary in a publishing firm. For the first time in a supporting role, Joan Crawford plays a high-powered editor, unlucky in love.
The Apartmentwritten and directed by Billy Wilder, stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious young insurance company clerk who lends out his apartment to corporate executives for extra-marital trysts, in hopes of getting promoted. Shirley MacLaine stars as an elevator operator with whom Lemmon falls in love, unaware that she is having an affair with one of the apartment's users. The film won several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and neither Lemmon nor MacLaine have ever been better.

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