How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967 Audience Choice Winner)
The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features our audience choice pick, David Swift’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Written and directed by David Swift (adapted from the hit Broadway musical) and starring Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Michelle Lee, Anthony Teague and Maureen Arthur, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying prevailed over Barefoot in the Park and The Taming of the Shrew in our audience choice poll of stage-to-screen adaptations.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/10/archives/screen-how-to-succeed-does-againmusical-with-morse-and-vallee-opens.html), Penelope Houston in The Spectator (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/7th-april-1967/17/arts-smooth-tudor), and Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice.
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