I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951)

Set in New York's garment district, an ambitious model (Susan Hayward)  turns fashion designer and steps on everyone in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually, she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man (Dan Dailey) she loves. Very loosely based on the novel by Jerome Weidman and directed by Michael Gordon (PILLOW TALK). There's actually very little resemblance between the novel and film. The novel's protagonist is male and the film has inexplicably switched genders and given the film a sentimental happy ending. That aside, the film is moderately enjoyable and Hayward's aggressiveness as an actress is put to good use as the ambitious "take no prisoners" wannabe fashion tycoon. Not surprisingly for 1951, the novel's "Jewishness" has been eradicated and its central characters are gentiles. In 1962, a musical version of the book (with Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand) opened on Broadway and was much more faithful to the novel. With George Sanders, Sam Jaffe, Randy Stuart, Marvin Kaplan, Barbara Whiting and Mary Philips.