Season 30, Day 8 - "Suit Yourself"
It's Man week, and today's quiz is inspired by "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit."
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson. The book spawned a 1956 film adaptation of the same name starring Gregory Peck as the title character. Following the success of the book and ensuing movie, the phrase “man in the gray flannel suit” entered the vernacular to symbolize the unfulfilled corporate worker in post-WWII America. The book’s author Sloan Wilson also wrote the romance novel A Summer Place, best known for being the basis of a movie whose instrumental theme (“Theme from A Summer Place”) was a #1 hit in 1960. The 1968 Disney movie The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit is a reference to the title. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit has been cited as a possible influence on Mad Men — at one point in the series, a character says to Don Draper: “Well, if it isn’t the man in the gray flannel suit.”