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By Radiator Perlman

Updated 27 October 2017

Artist	Donald Emmerich, Photographer (NARA record: 3045077)
Credit	U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
License	pd
Usage	Public domain

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1956 film by Michael Curtiz

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Released	1956 (66 years, 2 months ago)

Director	Michael Curtiz
Duration	104 minutes
Genre	musical film
Nominated for	Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score
Composer	Leigh Harline
Production company	20th Century Fox
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	William Bowers
Producer	Henry Ephron

About The Best Things in Life Are Free

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.