How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Tryingis a 1967 musical comedy film based on the 1961 stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Shepherd Meads book. The film was produced by United Artists and directed by David Swift, with original staging by Bob Fosse.

J. Pierpont Finch buys a book, How to Succeed in Business, describing in stepbystep fashion how to rise in the business world. The ambitious young window cleaner follows its advice carefully. He joins the WorldWide Wicket Company and begins work in the mailroom. Soon, thanks to the ethicallyquestionable advice in the book, he rises to VicePresident in Charge of Advertising, making sure that each person above him gets either fired or moved or transferred within the company.Finch begins to fall in love with Rosemary Pilkington, a secretary at the company. Finch finds out that the president of the company, J. B. Biggley, has made advances towards Hedy LaRue, a beautiful but incompetent woman the company has hired. Finch uses this information to assist his climb on the corporate ladder. ........

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