Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough 1975 123movies

Watch: Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough 1975 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young woman goes home to New York after a long stay in Europe. Her former schoolmate introduces her to the decadence of New York and she ultimately falls in love with an older man who’s a stand-in for her father, before tragedy ….
Plot: An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
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Putting the Jet Set Down
While nubile daughter Deborah Raffin (as January) recuperates from a motorcycle accident, “Academy Award”-winning movie producer Kirk Douglas (as Mike Wayne) marries super-wealthy Alexis Smith (as Deidre Milford Granger). This is because Mr. Douglas has fallen on hard times and wants to continue living a champagne caviar lifestyle, and Ms. Smith wants a backgammon partner. Smith is having an affair with reclusive movie queen Melina Mercouri (as Karla). Recovering beautifully, Ms. Raffin loses her virginity to stud cousin George Hamilton (as David Milford), who is also seeing Ms. Mercouri…

Raffin eventually falls in love with alcoholic writer David Janssen (as Tom Colt), after he fails to copulate with her best friend, promiscuous “Gloss” magazine editor Brenda Vaccaro (as Linda Riggs). Mr. Janssen thinks Douglas’ film version of his “Pulitzer Prize”-winning novel was awful. Douglas disapproves, naturally, of his daughter’s affair with Janssen…

The main theme of “Once Is Not Enough” appears to be the borderline incestuous love between Raffin and Douglas. Also, most of the couples have at least one bisexual partner; although there is no overt indication Janssen has any sexual interest in handsome astronaut Gary Conway (as Hugh Robertson), it’s difficult to ascertain another reason for his inclusion in the storyline. Apparently, much was cut from Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel. She and Irving Mansfield began by assembling good production values, but lost control as the story was turned into something hesitating and vacuous.

Some trashy fun remains.

***** Once Is Not Enough (6/18/75) Guy Green ~ Deborah Raffin, Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro

Once was not enough; It took two viewings to remind me I had suffered through this before…
It’s amazing how forgettable some films can be, even with an “A” cast list like this one. I actually saw it about two years ago and half way through the film, realized that I had already sneered at it. You’d expect at least some camp from the writer of “Valley of the Dolls”, and for this story of a Hollywood writer (Kirk Douglas) reminiscing about his life with his daughter (Deborah Raffin) and an ill-fated marriage, there was only a few moments to single out. Raffin’s dull creature is named “January”, which is appropriate considering her cold and frigid performance, even as an ingénue. Douglas, with one of the most hideous hairstyles since Donald Trump, tries to add some humanity to his boring character, and only sparkles in scenes with his Doris Duke/Barbara Hutton like wealthy wife (the marvelous Alexis Smith) who has an interesting secret of her own.

Brenda Vaccaro, in a showy Oscar Nominated performance, spends more time bemoaning her unattractiveness, yet is actually more desirable than the leading heroine, getting some really stinging dialog to deliver. Raffin is saddled in a strange relationship with the much older David Jansen, while George Hamilton, still “Mr. Tan” in 1975, and the great Melina Mercouri are totally wasted, although Mercouri stands out in a truly erotic scene that is the highlight of the film. I wanted to see so much more of Ms. Smith, then having just proved her talent by taking over Broadway in the diva role of the musical “Follies” and a short-lived revival of “The Women”. Her secret is revealed after she takes a walk through one of New York’s bigger department stores, having been dropped off by her chauffeur and heading out to catch a cab.

The ending is a total disappointment, pretty much coming out of nowhere and adding really no emotional value to the storyline. So now embedded in my memory, I can safely say that “Two times wasn’t the charm” and I won’t be paying any future visits to this artificial look at a group of mainly dull characters who give Ms. Susann’s Neeley O’Hara and Helen Lawson anything to worry about.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 1 min (121 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Guy Green
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Jacqueline Susann
Actors Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen
Country N/A
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Movielab, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm