Something for Everyone (1970 film)
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Something for Everyone is a black comedy
starring Angela Lansbury
, Michael York
, Anthony Higgins
, and Jane Carr
. The film was based on the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing, with the screenplay written by Hugh Wheeler
. The film was directed by Harold Prince for Cinema Center Films
, and originally released by National General Pictures
.
Lansbury was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
In 1990, a VHS of the film was released, however, there has never been a DVD release in the US, reportedly due to legal issues.
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
starring Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...
, Michael York
Michael York (actor)
Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...
, Anthony Higgins
Anthony Higgins (actor)
Anthony Higgins is an English actor.-Career:Higgins started to play in school theatre in England. After graduation, he studied at the school of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company. In 1967 he became a professional stage actor. He received positive reviews for his Romeo in William...
, and Jane Carr
Jane Carr
Ellen Jane Carr is an English actress. She is well known for the voice role of "Pud'n" on the animated The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy . She also played a character called "Pudding" in one of her earliest TV appearances, the Jilly Cooper-penned BBC sitcom It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes,...
. The film was based on the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing, with the screenplay written by Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Callingham Wheeler was an English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. He resided in the United States from 1934 until his death and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He had attended London University.Under the noms de plume Patrick Quentin, Q...
. The film was directed by Harold Prince for Cinema Center Films
Cinema Center Films
Cinema Center Films was the theatrical film production division of the CBS television network. Founded in 1967 , its films were distributed by National General Pictures. CBS closed the unit in 1972; its last film was the Peanuts animated musical Snoopy Come Home...
, and originally released by National General Pictures
National General Pictures
National General Pictures was a Distribution and Film production company which was active between 1967 and 1973. NGP produced nine motion pictures inhouse and was the distributor of eighty films....
.
Lansbury was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
In 1990, a VHS of the film was released, however, there has never been a DVD release in the US, reportedly due to legal issues.
Tagline
- "Compared to them, the MacBeths were just plain folks and the Borgias were a nice Italian family."