Once Is Not Enough (film)
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| Directed by | Guy Green |
| Produced by | Howard W. Koch |
| Written by | Julius J. Epstein |
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Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann |
| Starring |
Kirk Douglas Alexis Smith David Janssen George Hamilton |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $7.8 million (US/Canada rentals) |
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough is a 1975 American drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, and Deborah Raffin. It is an adaptation of the 1973 novel by Jacqueline Susann.
It featured Smith's return to the big screen after an absence of 16 years, and Vaccaro was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Linda Riggs.
In the film version, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he might, Mike no longer can get a new Hollywood project made.
Accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, Mike has pampered his daughter, January (Deborah Raffin), providing her with an expensive education in Europe and everything else money can buy. January worships her father and eagerly returns to America to be with him again.
Needing capital, Mike enters into a loveless marriage with Deidre Milford Granger (Alexis Smith), one of the world's wealthiest women. She has already been through multiple marriages and demands that things be done her way. She also is secretly carrying on a lesbian affair. January is devastated to learn that Mike is now wed to this rude, arrogant woman.
Deidre attempts to draw January into a relationship with her cousin David Milford (George Hamilton), a ladies' man who also usually gets his own way. He finally persuades January into going to bed with him, only to discover that she is a virgin.
Unsure what to do with her life, January is advised by an old friend, Linda Riggs (Brenda Vaccaro), now a magazine editor, to author a book. Linda enjoys a free-spirit life with many lovers and urges January to do likewise. But due in no small part to her father complex, January instead falls for a much-older Tom Colt (David Janssen), a hard-drinking, impotent novelist who is an adversary of her father's.
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