Wives and Lovers (1963)

Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a lowrent apartment Hes a struggling writer at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that shes sold his book to a publisher including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play Bertie befriends harddrinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie who plant seeds of suspicion in Berties mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich an actor who will be in her husbands play Bill goes to Connecticut for a hearttoheart talk finds Gar there and punches him