Once More, with Feeling!
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- This article discusses the 1960 film. For other topics of the same name, see Once More with Feeling
| Once More, with Feeling! | |
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| Directed by | Stanley Donen |
| Produced by | Stanley Donen |
| Written by | Harry Kurnitz |
| Starring | Yul Brynner Kay Kendall Gregory Ratoff |
| Music by | Franz Liszt Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Wagner arranged by Muir Mathieson |
| Cinematography | Georges Périnal |
| Editing by | Jack Harris |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  11 February 1960 |
| Running time | 92 min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Once More, with Feeling! is a 1960 comedy film made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based on his play. The film 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.
The film stars Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall with Gregory Ratoff and Geoffrey Toone.
[edit] Background
The play Once More, With Feeling which was adapted for this film, opened on Broadway on 21 October 1958 at the National Theatre, in a production directed by George Axelrod and designed by George Jenkins. It starred 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 in September, 1959, prior to the film's release.
[edit] Plot
Victor Fabian (Yul Brynner) is a famous classical conductor with an excitable nature, huge ego and terrible temper which cause great problems in his dealings with his musicians and everyone else. His wife, Dolly (Kay Kendall) is the one who always has to unruffle feathers. Fed up with this, she breaks up with him and accepts an offer of marriage from a physicist (Geoffrey Toone). Before she can remarry, she has to divorce Victor and this is when she discovers that they were never legally married. Nevertheless, they still need to go through the motions of a divorce, which means that they need to marry first. After an unexpected series of twists and complications, they discover that things between them are not as bad as they once seemed, and they decide to carry on as before.
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