The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a 1956 American drama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. The film focuses on Tom Rath, a young WWII veteran trying to balance his marriage and family life with the demands of his work for a New York television network, while dealing with the aftereffects of his war service. The film stars Gregory Peck as Tom Rath and Jennifer Jones as his wife Betsy, with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Keenan Wynn and Marisa Pavan in supporting roles. It was entered at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

When an expected inheritance from Toms recently deceased grandmother turns out to have been depleted, leaving only her large and not saleable mansion, Betsy pressures Tom to seek a higherpaying job. Tom interviews for an opening at the television network UBC, but when asked to write his autobiography as part of the interview process, he refuses. He is hired anyway for a public relations job, helping the network president Ralph Hopkins Fredric March launch a national mental health campaign. Hopkins is powerful and highly respected at the office, but unbeknownst to his employees, his workaholic habits have caused him to be estranged from his wife and his rebellious daughter, who soon elopes with an unsuitable man.Tom is initially supervised by Bill Ogden Henry Daniell, a micromanager and office politician who belittles Toms efforts in writing a speech for Hopkins to launch the campaign, and substitutes a draft of his own containing what Ogden thinks Hopkins wants to hear. At first Tom plans to play along with office politics and accept Ogdens draft, but pushed by Betsy, Tom ends up bluntly critiquing the draft as being phony, and presenting his original speech ideas to Hopkins instead. Hopkins, who has just received the unwelcome news of his daughters elopement, is receptive to Toms criticism and thinks Tom is similar to his own late son, who refused to accept an officers commission in WWII and was killed in action. Hopkins now regrets that he worked so much instead of spending time with his family, and advises Tom not to let anything keep him from his own family. ........

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