The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)
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Duration Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Musical Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 28, 1956 (1956-09-28) Cast (B.G. 'Buddy' De Sylva), (Ray Henderson), (Lew Brown), (Kitty Kane), (Carl Frisbee) Similar movies Pitch Perfect 2 , Cinderella , Birdman , Frozen , Mulan , Aladdin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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.
Cast
Critical response
Premiering in September-1956, 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 musical-comedy that could've been produced on a higher budget with bigger and better production numbers".
Box office performance
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.
Songs
References
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