On this day in movie history - Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Sweet Smell of Success

directed by Alexander Mackendrick,

written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Alexander Mackendrick,

was released in the United States on June 27, 1957.

Based on the novelette Tell Me About It Tomorrow! by Ernest Lehman,

originally published in Cosmopolitan (1950).

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

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Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, David White, Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz.