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1956 film by Michael Curtiz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane).
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Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
Screenplay by | William Bowers Phoebe Ephron Frank Tashlin (uncredited) |
Story by | John O'Hara |
Produced by | Henry Ephron |
Starring | Gordon MacRae Dan Dailey Ernest Borgnine Sheree North Tommy Noonan Murvyn Vye Phyllis Avery Larry Keating Tony Galento Norman Brooks |
Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
Music by | Lionel Newman |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.16 million[1] |
Box office | $2.7 million |
In 1957, the year after the film was released, it received an Oscar nomination for Lionel Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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Premiering in September 1956, The Best Things in Life Are Free was met with mixed reviews. Some reviews[citation needed] called it "the biggest new musical this year"[citation needed] and others "a musical-comedy that could've been produced on a higher budget with bigger and better production numbers".[citation needed]
Being a musical, though a modestly produced one, the movie was fairly expensive to produce. The film ended with a budget of $2.86 million and made just over $4 million at the box office, earning $2,250,000 in North American rentals in 1956.[2]
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