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{{Short description|1961 film by Anatole Litvak}}
{{Infobox film {{Infobox film
| name = Goodbye Again | name = Goodbye Again
| image = Goodbye Again.jpg | image = Goodbye again 1961.jpg
| caption = Original film poster | caption = Original film poster
| alt = | alt =
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = Anatole Litvak | producer = Anatole Litvak
| screenplay = ] | screenplay = ]
| based on = {{based on|'']''|]}} | based_on = {{based on|'']''|]}}
| starring = ]<br/>]<br/>]<br/>] | starring = ]<br/>]<br/>]<br/>]
| music = ]<br/>] | music = ]<br/>]
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| released = {{Film date|1961|06|29}} | released = {{Film date|1961|06|29}}
| runtime = 120 minutes | runtime = 120 minutes
| country = United States<ref name="tcmnotes"/> | country = United States<ref name="tcmnotes"/><br />France
| language = English | language = English
| budget = | budget =
|gross=2,387,793 admissions (France)<ref name="france">{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/&prev=search|website=Box Office Story|title=1961 Films}}</ref> | gross = 2,387,793 admissions (France)<ref name="france">{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/&prev=search|website=Box Office Story|title=1961 Films}}</ref><br>$1.6 million (US rentals)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety-1962-01/page/n121/mode/1up?q=%22back+street%22+%22ross+hunter%22|magazine=Variety|title=1961 Rentals and Potential|date=10 Jan 1961|page=58}}</ref>
}} }}
'''''Goodbye Again''''' (released in Europe as '''''Aimez-vous Brahms?''''')<ref name="fsm2008"/> is a 1961 American ] produced and directed by ]. The screenplay was written by ], based on the novel '']'' by ]. The film, released by ], stars ], ], ], and ]. '''''Goodbye Again''''' (released in Europe as '''''Aimez-vous Brahms?''''')<ref name="fsm2008"/> is a 1961 American-French ] film produced and directed by ]. The screenplay was written by ], based on the novel '']'' by ]. The film, released by ], stars ], ], ], and ].


==Plot== ==Plot==
Paula Tessier (Bergman) is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the ] of Roger Demarest (Montand), a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women.<ref name="tcmsynop"/> When Paula meets Philip (Perkins), the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the ] will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the ]. Paula Tessier is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the ] of Roger Demarest, a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women.<ref name="tcmsynop"/> When Paula meets Philip, the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the ] will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the ]. By the time of the ending, the plot has undergone a triple reversal involving one of life's wry ironies.


==Cast== ==Cast==
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* ] as Philip Van der Besh * ] as Philip Van der Besh
* ] as Mrs. Van der Besh * ] as Mrs. Van der Besh
⚫ * ] as Maitre Fleury
* ] as First Maisie * ] as First Maisie
* Jean Clarke as Second Maisie * Jean Clarke as Second Maisie
* ] as Third Maisie * ] as Third Maisie
⚫ * ] as Maitre Fleury
* ] as Gaby * ] as Gaby
* André Randall as M. Steiner * André Randall as Mr. Steiner
⚫ * ] as Client
⚫ * ] as Alice
⚫ * ] as Queen's Counsel
⚫ * ] as Night Club Singer
'''Uncredited Cast'''
* Lee Patrick as Mme. Fleury * Lee Patrick as Mme. Fleury
* Annie Duperoux as Madeline Fleury * Annie Duperoux as Madeline Fleury
* Raymond Gerome as Jimmy * Raymond Gerome as Jimmy
* Jean Hebey as Mons. Cherel * Jean Hebey as Mons. Cherel
⚫ * ] as Alice
* Michel Garland as Young Man in Club * Michel Garland as Young Man in Club
⚫ * ] as Queen's Counsel
* Colin Mann as Assistant Lawyer * Colin Mann as Assistant Lawyer

⚫ * ] as Night Club Singer
⚫ * ] as The Client
{{div col end}} {{div col end}}
The cast includes brief, uncredited ]s by ] and ].<ref name="tcmart"/> The cast includes brief, uncredited ]s by ] and ].<ref name="tcmart"/>


==Production== ==Production==
Litvak and others thought "''Aimez-vous Brahms?''" would be a confusing title for U.S. audiences, and initially chose ''Time on My Hands'' as the title for the American release, after ] they had selected as the main ]; when the song's publishers insisted on a $75,000 license for its use, they dropped plans to use the song, and the production team settled on "''Goodbye Again''" as the title, a suggestion from Perkins<ref name="fsm2008"/> that he had taken from a Broadway production in which his father ] had had a role.<ref name="ibdb"/> Litvak and others thought "''Aimez-vous Brahms?''" would be a confusing title for U.S. audiences, and initially chose ''Time on My Hands'' as the title for the American release, after ] they had selected as the main ]. But when the song's publishers insisted on a $75,000 license for its use, Litvak dropped plans to use the song. The production team settled on "''Goodbye Again''" as the title, a suggestion from Perkins<ref name="fsm2008"/> which he had taken from a Broadway production in which his father ] had had a role.<ref name="ibdb"/>


{{quote box|align=right|width=33%|quote = These two actors are wonderful for their parts. It's a long time since I worked with two actors I enjoyed so much. They are both charming, both great personalities and very different, and you understand why I&mdash;in my part as Paula&mdash;love them both.|source= —Letter written by Ingrid Bergman while on set<ref name="tcmart"/>}} {{quote box|align=right|width=33%|quote = These two actors are wonderful for their parts. It's a long time since I worked with two actors I enjoyed so much. They are both charming, both great personalities and very different, and you understand why I&mdash;in my part as Paula&mdash;love them both.|source= —Letter written by Ingrid Bergman while on set<ref name="tcmart"/>}}


Scenes were ] in Paris.<ref name="tcmnotes"/> During ], Perkins thought Bergman was a "little too persistent" in her attempts to get him to rehearse their kissing scenes; Perkins later said "Bergman would have welcomed an ] with him", but Bergman had a different explanation in her 1980 autobiography, saying it was her shyness and tendency to blush: "You see, although the camera has no terrors at all for me, I'm very bad at this sort of intimacy on the screen, especially when the men are practically strangers."<ref name="tcmart"/> Scenes were ] in Paris.<ref name="tcmnotes"/> During ], Perkins thought Bergman was a "little too persistent" in her attempts to get him to rehearse their kissing scenes; Perkins later said "Bergman would have welcomed an ] with him."


But Bergman had a different explanation in her 1980 autobiography, saying it was her shyness and tendency to blush: "You see, although the camera has no terrors at all for me, I'm very bad at this sort of intimacy on the screen, especially when the men are practically strangers."<ref name="tcmart"/>
⚫ Uncredited "stars" of the film were the automobiles: as ''Time'' magazine pointed out, ''Goodbye Again'' "is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles."<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895445,00.html | title= Cinema: Aimez-Vous Maxim's?| date= June 30, 1961 | publisher= ] | accessdate= 2012-02-27| quote= Goodbye Again (Litvak; United Artists) is an American film in the sense that the U.S. is where the money to make it came from, but otherwise it is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles.}}</ref>

⚫ Uncredited "stars" of the film were the automobiles: as ''Time'' magazine pointed out, ''Goodbye Again'' "is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles."<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895445,00.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110204204759/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895445,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= February 4, 2011 | title= Cinema: Aimez-Vous Maxim's?| date= June 30, 1961 | publisher= ] | access-date= 2012-02-27| quote= Goodbye Again (Litvak; United Artists) is an American film in the sense that the U.S. is where the money to make it came from, but otherwise it is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles.}}</ref>


==Music== ==Music==
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==Reception== ==Reception==
The film "found success in Europe, where Perkins won an award for his performance at the Cannes Film Festival, but in America critics and audiences were generally unenthusiastic."<ref name="fsm2008"/> According to ], "Taylor's derivative screen play has a few flights of fancy and wit, but on the whole it is solemn and pedestrian"; "Perkins not only has the most engaging role but he also plays it in the most engaging fashion and almost carries the picture by himself."<ref name="nyt1961"/> Years later, Andrea Foshee, writing for ], agreed:<ref name="tcmart"/> The film "found success in Europe, where Perkins won an award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance, but in America critics and audiences were generally unenthusiastic."<ref name="fsm2008"/> According to ], "Taylor's derivative screen play has a few flights of fancy and wit, but on the whole it is solemn and pedestrian"; "Perkins not only has the most engaging role but he also plays it in the most engaging fashion and almost carries the picture by himself."<ref name="nyt1961"/> Years later, Andrea Foshee, writing for ], agreed:<ref name="tcmart"/>


<blockquote>Co-star Anthony Perkins was just coming off his smash 1960 success as ] in Alfred Hitchcock's '']'', a role that would typecast him for the rest of his career. Yet, as the charming, aimless Philip in ''Goodbye Again'', Perkins clearly demonstrates his versatility as an actor in a role that couldn't be further removed from his turn as a cross-dressing schizophrenic killer.</blockquote> <blockquote>Co-star Anthony Perkins was just coming off his smash 1960 success as ] in Alfred Hitchcock's '']'', a role that would typecast him for the rest of his career. Yet, as the charming, aimless Philip in ''Goodbye Again'', Perkins clearly demonstrates his versatility as an actor in a role that couldn't be further removed from his turn as a cross-dressing schizophrenic killer.</blockquote>
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It was the 25th most popular movie of the year in France.<ref name="france"/> It was the 25th most popular movie of the year in France.<ref name="france"/>

] of ] described Goodbye Again as a "syprupy saga."<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Trom Sec Sagan to Syrupy Saga| url=https://newrepublic.com| access-date=2024-01-27| magazine=The New Republic| language=en}}</ref>


==See also== ==See also==
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==References== ==References==
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<ref name="fsm2008">{{cite web|work=FSM online liner notes |url=http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/goodbye_again.html |title=Goodbye Again |publisher=] |date=2008 |location=6311 Romaine Street, Suite 7109, Hollywood CA |accessdate=2012-02-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226202223/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/goodbye_again.html |archivedate=2012-02-26 }}</ref> <ref name="fsm2008">{{cite web|work=FSM online liner notes |url=http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/goodbye_again.html |title=Goodbye Again |publisher=] |date=2008 |location=6311 Romaine Street, Suite 7109, Hollywood CA |access-date=2012-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226202223/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/goodbye_again.html |archive-date=2012-02-26 }}</ref>
<ref name="nyt1961">{{cite web| url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9801E4DA1730EE32A25753C3A9609C946091D6CF | title= ''Goodbye Again'' at 2 Theatres: Film Based on Novel by Francoise Sagan | date= June 30, 1961| first=Bosley |last=Crowther| authorlink= Bosley Crowther | publisher= The New York Times | accessdate= 2012-02-28}}</ref> <ref name="nyt1961">{{cite web| url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9801E4DA1730EE32A25753C3A9609C946091D6CF | title= ''Goodbye Again'' at 2 Theatres: Film Based on Novel by Francoise Sagan | date= June 30, 1961| first=Bosley |last=Crowther| author-link= Bosley Crowther | work= The New York Times | access-date= 2012-02-28}}</ref>
<ref name="cannes1961">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3244/year/1961.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Goodbye Again |accessdate=2009-02-21 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918115903/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3244/year/1961.html |archivedate=2012-09-18 }}</ref> <ref name="cannes1961">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3244/year/1961.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Goodbye Again |access-date=2009-02-21 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918115903/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3244/year/1961.html |archive-date=2012-09-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="tcmsynop">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/full-synopsis.html | title= Full Synopsis | publisher= ] | accessdate= 2012-02-28}}</ref> <ref name="tcmsynop">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/full-synopsis.html | title= Full Synopsis | publisher= ] | access-date= 2012-02-28}}</ref>
<ref name="tcmnotes">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/notes.html | title= Notes | publisher= ] | accessdate= 2012-02-28 | quote= Location scenes filmed in Paris. Opened in Paris in May 1961 as ''Aimez-vous Brahms?'' Only British sources credit France with co-production status.}}</ref> <ref name="tcmnotes">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/notes.html | title= Notes | publisher= ] | access-date= 2012-02-28 | quote= Location scenes filmed in Paris. Opened in Paris in May 1961 as ''Aimez-vous Brahms?'' Only British sources credit France with co-production status.}}</ref>
<ref name="tcmart">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/articles.html | title= Articles | first=Andrea |last= Foshee | publisher= ] | accessdate= 2012-02-28}}</ref> <ref name="tcmart">{{cite web| url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17134/Goodbye-Again/articles.html | title= Articles | first=Andrea |last= Foshee | publisher= ] | access-date= 2012-02-28}}</ref>
<ref name="ibdb">{{cite web| url= http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=11701 | title= Goodbye Again | publisher= The Broadway League | work= ] | accessdate= 2012-02-28}}</ref> <ref name="ibdb">{{cite web| url= http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=11701 | title= Goodbye Again | publisher= The Broadway League | work= ] | access-date= 2012-02-28}}</ref>
}} }}


==External links== ==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=54936|title=Goodbye Again}} *{{IMDb title|id=54936|title=Goodbye Again}}
*{{tcmdb title|id=17134|title=Goodbye Again}} *{{TCMDb title|id=17134|title=Goodbye Again}}


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1961 film by Anatole Litvak
Goodbye Again
Original film poster
Directed byAnatole Litvak
Screenplay bySamuel A. Taylor
Based onAimez-vous Brahms?
by Françoise Sagan
Produced byAnatole Litvak
StarringIngrid Bergman
Anthony Perkins
Yves Montand
Jessie Royce Landis
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited byBert Bates
Music byGeorges Auric
Johannes Brahms
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • June 29, 1961 (1961-06-29)
Running time120 minutes
CountriesUnited States
France
LanguageEnglish
Box office2,387,793 admissions (France)
$1.6 million (US rentals)

Goodbye Again (released in Europe as Aimez-vous Brahms?) is a 1961 American-French romantic drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. The screenplay was written by Samuel A. Taylor, based on the novel Aimez-vous Brahms? by Françoise Sagan. The film, released by United Artists, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, and Jessie Royce Landis.

Plot

Paula Tessier is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest, a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip, the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance. By the time of the ending, the plot has undergone a triple reversal involving one of life's wry ironies.

Cast

Uncredited Cast

  • Lee Patrick as Mme. Fleury
  • Annie Duperoux as Madeline Fleury
  • Raymond Gerome as Jimmy
  • Jean Hebey as Mons. Cherel
  • Michel Garland as Young Man in Club
  • Colin Mann as Assistant Lawyer

The cast includes brief, uncredited cameo appearances by Yul Brynner and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

Production

Litvak and others thought "Aimez-vous Brahms?" would be a confusing title for U.S. audiences, and initially chose Time on My Hands as the title for the American release, after the song of that name they had selected as the main theme. But when the song's publishers insisted on a $75,000 license for its use, Litvak dropped plans to use the song. The production team settled on "Goodbye Again" as the title, a suggestion from Perkins which he had taken from a Broadway production in which his father Osgood had had a role.

These two actors are wonderful for their parts. It's a long time since I worked with two actors I enjoyed so much. They are both charming, both great personalities and very different, and you understand why I—in my part as Paula—love them both.

—Letter written by Ingrid Bergman while on set

Scenes were filmed on location in Paris. During principal photography, Perkins thought Bergman was a "little too persistent" in her attempts to get him to rehearse their kissing scenes; Perkins later said "Bergman would have welcomed an affair with him."

But Bergman had a different explanation in her 1980 autobiography, saying it was her shyness and tendency to blush: "You see, although the camera has no terrors at all for me, I'm very bad at this sort of intimacy on the screen, especially when the men are practically strangers."

Uncredited "stars" of the film were the automobiles: as Time magazine pointed out, Goodbye Again "is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles."

Music

The score is by Georges Auric, with additional music by Brahms. The Brahms motifs are the 4th movement from Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, and the 3rd Movement from Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90. Film critic Bosley Crowther called the score "almost as elegant as the settings, which are the most respectable things in the film."

The soulful theme of the third movement of Brahms' Symphony No. 3 is heard repeatedly, including as the tune of a song ("Love Is Just a Word") sung by the night club singer (Diahann Carroll). Lyrics to the film are by Dory Langdon (later known as Dory Previn).

The soundtrack was released by United Artists Records (UAS 5091) in "electronic" (i.e., simulated) stereo.

Reception

The film "found success in Europe, where Perkins won an award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance, but in America critics and audiences were generally unenthusiastic." According to Bosley Crowther, "Taylor's derivative screen play has a few flights of fancy and wit, but on the whole it is solemn and pedestrian"; "Perkins not only has the most engaging role but he also plays it in the most engaging fashion and almost carries the picture by himself." Years later, Andrea Foshee, writing for Turner Classic Movies, agreed:

Co-star Anthony Perkins was just coming off his smash 1960 success as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a role that would typecast him for the rest of his career. Yet, as the charming, aimless Philip in Goodbye Again, Perkins clearly demonstrates his versatility as an actor in a role that couldn't be further removed from his turn as a cross-dressing schizophrenic killer.

Perkins won the Best Actor Award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and Anatole Litvak was nominated for the Palme d'Or.

It was the 25th most popular movie of the year in France.

Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic described Goodbye Again as a "syprupy saga."

See also

References

  1. ^ "Notes". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2012-02-28. Location scenes filmed in Paris. Opened in Paris in May 1961 as Aimez-vous Brahms? Only British sources credit France with co-production status.
  2. ^ "1961 Films". Box Office Story.
  3. "1961 Rentals and Potential". Variety. 10 Jan 1961. p. 58.
  4. ^ "Goodbye Again". FSM online liner notes. 6311 Romaine Street, Suite 7109, Hollywood CA: Film Score Monthly. 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. "Full Synopsis". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  6. ^ Foshee, Andrea. "Articles". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  7. "Goodbye Again". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  8. "Cinema: Aimez-Vous Maxim's?". Time. June 30, 1961. Archived from the original on February 4, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-27. Goodbye Again (Litvak; United Artists) is an American film in the sense that the U.S. is where the money to make it came from, but otherwise it is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles.
  9. ^ Crowther, Bosley (June 30, 1961). "Goodbye Again at 2 Theatres: Film Based on Novel by Francoise Sagan". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  10. "Festival de Cannes: Goodbye Again". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  11. "Trom Sec Sagan to Syrupy Saga". The New Republic. Retrieved 2024-01-27.

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