The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)

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 reallife 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.

Premiering in September1956, The Best Things in Life Are Free was greeted with mixed to positive critical acclaim. Reviews said the biggest new musical this year and others said a musicalcomedy that couldve been produced on a higher budget with bigger and better production numbers.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 overmillion at the box office, earning 2,250,000 in North American rentals in 1956. ........

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