![]() ![]() Two of the hottest Hollywood teen stars, Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee, starred in Delmer Daves's adaptation of the novel, a steamy portrayal of infidelity in a small New England town. ![]() Nothing in Wilson's later career came anywhere near the success of The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit, though a sequel, The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit II (1984), took Tom Rath to Washington and a job in the Kennedy administration.īut the impact of Wilson's considerable wealth and celebrity status proved destructive, and the alcoholism, infidelity and ennui that plague the nouveau riche in his other popular novel, A Summer Place (1958), had their bearing on the author's own life. Betsey is also unhappy with being unhappy in suburbia: "We shouldn't be so discontented all the time," she reminds Tom. "Money, I need money," Rath keeps reminding himself. Hopkins (played in the film by Lee J Cobb) is a thinly-veiled portrait of the giant ego of Roy Larsen, president of Time Inc, for whom Wilson worked. ![]() "The important thing is to make money," he thinks before a meeting with his boss, Hopkins, the president of the United Broadcasting Corporation. Returning after a tough day at the office, Tom greets Betsey: "How did things go with you today?" "Not so well." "Why, what happened?" "Barbara's got the chicken pox and the washing machine broke down." He told the story of Tom and Betsey Rath, uneasily settled in Westport, Connecticut, where they fret about the local schools and feel that their lives are blighted by "a thousand petty shabbinesses". ![]()
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