her insistence on special treatment caused problems—even with Jean Negulesco, who had returned to direct a second Crawford picture. This time, however, his experience was thornier than it had been during Humoresque. “It’s difficult to get what you want out of her, becauseshe has such definite ideas,” he said at the time. The result, by the end of her work on The Best of Everything, was a deeper disconnection from her colleagues, hence a greater loneliness. For much
