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| image = Once more with feeling.jpeg | image = Once more with feeling.jpeg
| caption = Original film poster | caption = Original film poster
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = ] | producer = Stanley Donen
| writer = ] | writer = ] (play and screenplay)
| starring = ] <br> ]<br>] | starring = {{ubl|]|]|]}}
| music = ]<br> ]<br>]<br> arranged by<br> ] | music = {{ubl|]|]|]|arranged by ]}}
| cinematography = Georges Périnal | cinematography = ]
| editing = Jack Harris | editing = ]
| distributor = ] | distributor = ]
| released = {{flagicon|USA}} 11 February 1960 | released = {{Film date|1960|02|11|U.S.|df=yes}}
| runtime = 92 min | runtime = 92 min
| country = {{UK}} | country = United Kingdom
| awards = | language = English
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| gross = $1,500,000 (US/ Canada)<ref>"Rental Potentials of 1960", ''Variety'', 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.</ref>
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⚫ }}'''''Once More, with Feeling!''''' is a ] comedy film made by ]. It was directed and produced by ] from a ] by ], based on his play. The film has music by ], ] and ], arranged by ]. The cinematography was by ] and the costume design by ].


⚫ The film was released by ] and has music by ], ], and ], arranged by ]. The cinematography was by ] and the costume design by ].
The film stars ] and ] with ] and ].


==Background== ==Plot==
Egomaniacal and temperamental Victor Fabian is the London Festival Orchestra's conductor. His wife, Dolly, is a harpist who acts on her husband's behalf, presenting his impossible demands to the symphony's backers, only to then find him dallying with a considerably younger musician. Dolly decides to leave him, whereupon he destroys her harp.
⚫ The play ''Once More, With Feeling'' which was adapted for this film, opened on ] on 21 October 1958 at the ], in a production directed by ] and designed by George Jenkins. It starred ], ] and ], who was nominated for a ] as Best featured actor. The play ran for 263 performances.


Victor's conducting suffers in Dolly's absence and the orchestra needs her back. His agent, Max Archer, tries to get him a new contract, but young Wilbur, son of the orchestra's patron saint, insists to Victor's horror that any agreement must include a performance of his mother's favorite piece of music, John Philip Sousa's '']''.
⚫ The film was Kay Kendall's last. She died of ] on September 6, 1959, prior to the film's release.

Rather than return, Dolly wants a divorce so she can marry Dr. Richard Hilliard, a physicist. An angry Victor blurts out that to be divorced, two people must first be married. It turns out colleagues only assumed Victor and Dolly were husband and wife, and they had never actually tied the knot.

Victor won't grant a quick marriage and equally quick divorce unless she agrees to live with him for three more weeks. He wears down her resolve, and Hilliard catches her in a frilly nightgown. A frustrated Dolly tells both she just wants to live alone. She applauds from the audience as Victor, with great reluctance, launches the orchestra into a rousing ''Stars and Stripes Forever''.


==Cast== ==Cast==
* ] as Victor Fabian * ] as Dr. Victor Fabian
* ] as Dolly Fabian * ] as Dolly Fabian
⚫ * ] as Maxwell Archer
* ] as Dr. Richard Hilliard * ] as Dr. Richard Hilliard
* ] as Jascha Gendel / Grisha Gendel * ] as Jascha Gendel / Grisha Gendel
* ] as Mr. Wilbur Jr. * ] as Mr. Wilbur Jr.
* ] as Luigi Bardini * ] as Luigi Bardini
* ] as Chester * Harry Lockart as Chester
⚫ * ] as Maxwell Archer
* ] as Angela Hopper * ] as Angela Hopper

==Background==
⚫ The play ''Once More, With Feeling'', which was adapted for this film, opened in ] in September 1958 and then on ] on 21 October 1958 at the ], in a production directed by ] and designed by George Jenkins, and starring ], ], and ], who was nominated for a ] as Best Featured Actor. The play ran for 263 performances.

⚫ The film was Kay Kendall's last. She died of ] on 6 September 1959 before the film's release.

==Novelization==
In January, 1960, ] issued a paperback novelization "based on the stage and screen plays"; the author was celebrated American potboiler novelist and showbiz biographer ] (1905–1998). The cover price was 35¢. It was concurrently published in the UK, also as a paperback, by WDL; the cover price was 2'6. The nearly identical front panel designs feature a painting by prolific paperback cover artist Tom Miller, intimately depicting Kay Kendall, reclining on a couch with a martini, and Yul Brynner, behind the couch, leaning in.

==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
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* {{Rotten Tomatoes|once_more_with_feeling_1960}}


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Latest revision as of 21:54, 7 September 2024

1960 film by Stanley Donen This article is about the 1960 film. For other topics of the same name, see Once More with Feeling (disambiguation).

Once More, with Feeling!
Original film poster
Directed byStanley Donen
Written byHarry Kurnitz (play and screenplay)
Produced byStanley Donen
Starring
CinematographyGeorges Périnal
Edited byJack Harris
Music by
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • 11 February 1960 (1960-02-11) (U.S.)
Running time92 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,500,000 (US/ Canada)

Once More, with Feeling! is a 1960 British comedy film starring Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall in her final film appearance and directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based on his play.

The film was released by Columbia Pictures and has music by Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Richard Wagner, arranged by Muir Mathieson. The cinematography was by Georges Périnal and the costume design by Givenchy.

Plot

Egomaniacal and temperamental Victor Fabian is the London Festival Orchestra's conductor. His wife, Dolly, is a harpist who acts on her husband's behalf, presenting his impossible demands to the symphony's backers, only to then find him dallying with a considerably younger musician. Dolly decides to leave him, whereupon he destroys her harp.

Victor's conducting suffers in Dolly's absence and the orchestra needs her back. His agent, Max Archer, tries to get him a new contract, but young Wilbur, son of the orchestra's patron saint, insists to Victor's horror that any agreement must include a performance of his mother's favorite piece of music, John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.

Rather than return, Dolly wants a divorce so she can marry Dr. Richard Hilliard, a physicist. An angry Victor blurts out that to be divorced, two people must first be married. It turns out colleagues only assumed Victor and Dolly were husband and wife, and they had never actually tied the knot.

Victor won't grant a quick marriage and equally quick divorce unless she agrees to live with him for three more weeks. He wears down her resolve, and Hilliard catches her in a frilly nightgown. A frustrated Dolly tells both she just wants to live alone. She applauds from the audience as Victor, with great reluctance, launches the orchestra into a rousing Stars and Stripes Forever.

Cast

Background

The play Once More, With Feeling, which was adapted for this film, opened in New Haven in September 1958 and then on Broadway on 21 October 1958 at the National Theatre, in a production directed by George Axelrod and designed by George Jenkins, and starring Joseph Cotten, Arlene Francis, and Walter Matthau, who was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor. The play ran for 263 performances.

The film was Kay Kendall's last. She died of leukemia on 6 September 1959 before the film's release.

Novelization

In January, 1960, Pyramid Books issued a paperback novelization "based on the stage and screen plays"; the author was celebrated American potboiler novelist and showbiz biographer Ann Pinchot (1905–1998). The cover price was 35¢. It was concurrently published in the UK, also as a paperback, by WDL; the cover price was 2'6. The nearly identical front panel designs feature a painting by prolific paperback cover artist Tom Miller, intimately depicting Kay Kendall, reclining on a couch with a martini, and Yul Brynner, behind the couch, leaning in.

References

  1. "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  2. Crowther, Bosley (12 February 1960). "Once More With Feeling (1960) Kay Kendall and Yul Brynner in Comedy". The New York Times.

External links

Films directed by Stanley Donen
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