How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film)

Infobox Film
name = How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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caption = Original film poster
director = David Swift
producer = David Swift
Irving Temaner
writer = Shepherd Mead (book)
Abe Burrows
Jack Weinstock
Willie Glibert
starring = Robert Morse
Michele Lee
Rudy Vallee
Anthony Teague
music = Frank Loesser
cinematography = Burnett Guffey
editing = Allan Jacobs
Ralph E. Winters
distributor = United Artists
released = 1967
runtime = 121 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0061791

"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1967) is a American musical feature film based on the 1958 stage musical of the same name and the book written by Shepherd Mead. The film was produced by United Artists and directed by David Swift. The cast includes Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee (reprising their original Broadway roles), Michele Lee, Anthony Teague, and Maureen Arthur. The film marks the debut of Lee who later appeared in the popular 1980s soap opera "Knots Landing".

ynopsis

J. Pierpont Finch buys a book "How To Succeed In Business", describing in step-by-step fashion how to rise in the business world. The ambitious young window cleaner follows its advice carefully. He joins the "World-Wide Wicket Company" and begins work in the mail-room. Soon, thanks to the ethically-questionable advice in the book, he rises to Vice-President in Charge Of Advertising, making sure that each person above him gets either fired or moved or transferred within the company. Finch begins to fall in love with Rosemary Pilkington, a secretary at the company. Finch finds out that the president of the company, J. B. Biggley, has made advances towards the beautiful and well-built, but incompetent secretary Hedy LaRue. Finch uses this information to assist his climb on the corporate ladder. However, Bud Frump, Biggley's annoying nephew, also takes advantage of the situation and tries to get to the top before Finch.