Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again (1960) Director: Anatole Litvak - Script: Samuel Taylor, based on "Aimez-vous Brahms?" by Françoise Sagan - Camera: Armand Thirard - Cut: Bert Bates - Music: Georges Auric - Songs: Dory Langdon - Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Jessie Royce Landis, Jackie Lane, Jean Clarke, Clarke Jean, Pierre Dux, Michèle Mercier, Diahann Carroll, Uta Taeger and any more - 1960/1961; 115 Min.

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1960 - Anatole Litvak - Françoise Sagan - Ingrid Bergman - Anthony Perkins - Yves Montand

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The Johannes Brahms motives are from Symphonie no. 1, Più andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio, and Symponie no. 3, Poco allegretto.

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The book of Françoise Sagan "Aimez-vous Brahms", a love between an older woman (Paula - Ingrid Bergman) and a young man (Philip - Anthony Perkins), was a sensation in 1959.

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Goodbye Again (1968) was an ill-fated attempt by ITV to re-create the magic of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's very successful BBC comedy series "Not Only... But Also"(began 1965). The series suffered from the same downfalls as various other BBC-to-ITV shows of the time, namely that the larger budget and slicker production often detracted from, rather than added to, the show. Cook and Moore made only 4 hour-long shows, which featured US "name" guests, and was interspersed with rock acts, such as Ike and Tina Turner.

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1968 - ITV - Peter Cook - Dudley Moore - BBC - Not Only... But Also - 1965 - Ike - Tina Turner

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Of note to comedy fans should be the fact that one innovation of the show was the total abandonment of all punchlines, with the sketches flowing into one another in a stream-of-consciousness, surreal method, which predated Monty Python's Flying Circus by 18 months. Also of note to Python fans should be the "Senile Delinquency" sketch and the recurring high-voiced old woman, who should be referred to as the 'pre-pepperpots'. Making things even more interesting was the fact that one pre-Python John Cleese guest-starred on the show. On the whole, however, the American-slick presentation, the overlong scripts, and the poor direction added to the "we're only in it for the money" overall feel of the show, resulting in a show that was considered disappointing overall.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus - John Cleese

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