But Not for Me is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker and Lilli Palmer.

On returning to New York, everybody wants a piece of him: ex-wife Kathryn Ward, hard-drinking playwright Jeremiah "Mac" MacDonald, magazine reporter Roy Morton, business manager Miles Atwood, and lawyer Charles Montgomery, one after another.

Russ tells loyal young secretary and student actress Ellie Brown it is likely time to retire because the new show is a mess.

A delighted Mac rewrites it, and everyone involved works on it at the Long Island mansion where the former actress Kathryn lives, partly thanks to her alimony from Russ.

The newlyweds decide to compromise, and Russ, who finally has figured out that Kathryn was the anonymous angel who financed the show, is ready to give their relationship a second act.

A worthwhile novelization of the screenplay was written by American writer Edward S. Aarons (1916–1975) under the mild pseudonym Edward Ronns, published in a mass market, tie-in paperback edition by Pyramid Books (cover price 35¢) with a release date of September, 1959 and copyright assigned to Paramount Pictures Corporation.