| The Best Things in Life Are Free | |
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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 |
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).
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.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p250