Once More, with Feeling! (1960)
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.
- Date of release
- 1960-02-11
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Director
- Stanley Donen
Casting
- Yul Brynner — Victor Fabian
- Kay Kendall — Dolly Fabian
- Geoffrey Toone — Dr. Richard Hilliard
- Maxwell Shaw — Jascha Gendel / Grisha Gendel
- Mervyn Johns — Mr. Alonzo Wilbur Jr.
- Martin Benson — Luigi Bardini
- Harry Lockart — Chester
- Gregory Ratoff — Maxwell Archer
- Shirley Anne Field — Angela Hooper
- Colin Drake — Doctor (uncredited)
- Andrew Faulds — Interviewer (uncredited)
- Barbara Hall — Secretary (uncredited)
Interesting facts
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.
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.
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