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January learns that she has inherited $ 3 million from her father's insurance policy to begin a new life for herself. When she goes to tell the good news to Linda, she finds her angry and distraught, having just been fired for having sex with her boss. Realizing that nothing is perfect in life, not
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Needing capital, Mike enters into a loveless marriage with Deidre Milford Granger, one of the world's wealthiest women. She has already been through multiple marriages and demands that things be done her way. She is also secretly carrying on a lesbian affair. January is devastated to learn that her
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Deidre's demands and insults finally become too much for Mike, who wants a divorce. They amicably agree to one but their airplane crashes and both are killed. The devastated January turns to Tom Colt for comfort, but he turns against her, leaving her to go on alone.
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The ending was made more hopeful than in the source novel. The novel ends with January trying acid and partaking in an orgy. She then wanders onto the beach where she hallucinates that she sees her father and walks into the ocean after him, presumably drowning.
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Accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, Mike has pampered his daughter, January, 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.
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Unsure what to do with her life, January is advised by an old friend, Linda Riggs, now a magazine editor, to write a book. Linda enjoys a free-spirited life with many lovers and urges January to do likewise. But due in no small part to her
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Mike bitterly resents the affair. He punches Colt upon finding him with January in a Beverly Hills hotel cabin. Mike orders his daughter to make a choice between them and Colt gives her the same ultimatum. She chooses her lover.
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Deidre attempts to draw January into a relationship with her cousin David Milford, 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.
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said Kirk Douglas and Janssen directed themselves during the film. Green said he did not get along with Susann and did not enjoy the experience. "I was lost... going through the emotions," he said. "A sad experience."
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The film was panned by critics upon release. However, many reviewers singled out Brenda Vaccaro for praise. Despite the reviews, the film was a commercial success, earning $ 15.7 million at the box office.
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Mike Wayne is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he may, Mike can no longer get a new Hollywood project made.
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Guy Green was hired to direct the film, according to one Paramount executive, because he "might give it class". Green wanted
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even in its own way, January is left alone wandering Manhattan after dark but with hope that tomorrow will be a better day.
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Despite only 14 seconds of screen time, with just two lines ("You dumb drunken broad! You could’ve been killed!"), actor
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to play the role of Mike Wayne. He also wanted to fire David Janssen during rehearsals and replace him with
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Enough, Already, About 'Enough'! Los Angeles Times 11 July 1974: g14
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Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (film)

Guy Green
Julius J. Epstein
Once Is Not Enough
Jacqueline Susann
Howard W. Koch
Kirk Douglas
Alexis Smith
David Janssen
George Hamilton
Melina Mercouri
Brenda Vaccaro
Deborah Raffin
John A. Alonzo
Henry Mancini
Paramount Pictures
romance film
Guy Green
Kirk Douglas
Alexis Smith
David Janssen
George Hamilton
Brenda Vaccaro
Melina Mercouri
Deborah Raffin
Howard W. Koch
Julius J. Epstein
of the same name
Jacqueline Susann

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