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. Plot Cast Gordon MacRae as Buddy DeSylva Dan Dailey as Ray Henderson Ernest Borgnine as Lew Brown Sheree North as Kitty Kane Tommy Noonan as Carl Frisbee Murvyn Vye as Manny Costain Phyllis Avery as Maggie Henderson Larry Keating as Winfield Sheehan Tony Galento as Fingers Norman Brooks as Al Jolson Jacques d'Amboise as Specialty dancer Roxanne Arlen as Perky Nichols Byron Palmer as Hollywood star Gordon Richards as Butler