Goodbye Again (1961) on Netflix
Paula Tessier, a Parisian interior designer, has been Roger Demarest's mistress for five years. He keeps other women. Her client's son, Philip Van der Besh, pursues her and she resists him.
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Plot summary
For five years Paula Tessier, a Parisian interior designer, has been the mistress of Roger Demarest, a business executive who keeps other women. He puts off their anniversary date to the next day, then gives her name to a client, Mrs. Van der Besh, who wants her apartment redecorated. The client's 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, drives Paula home and falls in love with her, and she turns his advances away. At a nightclub he approaches her drunk and takes Roger for her husband. Roger begins an affair with another young woman and cancels a weekend he had planned with Paula.
Cast
- Jean Clarkeas Second Maisie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Goodbye Again (1961)
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- Goodbye Again was almost called Time on My Hands, after a song chosen as its main theme, but when the song's publishers demanded a $75,000 license, director Anatole Litvak dropped the song and used Anthony Perkins's suggestion, taken from a Broadway show his father Osgood had appeared in.
- During filming, Anthony Perkins thought Ingrid Bergman was "a little too persistent" about rehearsing their kissing scenes, and later said she would have welcomed an affair with him; in her 1980 autobiography Bergman blamed her own shyness and blushing at screen intimacy with men who were practically strangers.
- The soulful theme of Brahms' Symphony No. 3 is heard again and again in the film, including as the tune of the song "Love Is Just a Word" sung by nightclub singer Diahann Carroll, with lyrics by Dory Langdon, later known as Dory Previn.
