Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

In the seventies, Jacqueline Susann was notorious for nasty, trashy novels filled with glamour, sex and high drama.

In 1975, Paramount sunk a ton of money into a huge film adaption, proudly calling it JACQUELINE SUSANN'S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH.

Proving the adage, "garbage in, garbage out", a massive cast and budget translate a very trashy book into a very trashy movie.

Kirk Douglas is a wealthy movie producer married to an incredibly wealthy woman. His daughter (played woodenly by Deborah Raffin) proudly announces to everyone she's a virgin, seems to have a disturbing daddy complex and falls for an alcoholic novelist, badly overacted by the usually reliable David Jannsen.

George Hamilton is a very tan playboy and male escort and Brenda Vacarro is a high fashion editor that somehow manages to emerge from this celluloid garbage unscathed. (Vacarro was actually nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this tripe.)

Imagine "Days of Our Lives" with a $20 million budget, much better actors and the same crap screenplay and you are close.

Hilariously bad, its a fun watch to see just how low it will go.

When you realize that the film was written by Julius J. Epstein, who also wrote the classic "Casablanca", you suddenly realize that no one can polish the turd of a the original novel into anything but a very shiny turd.

This is big budget seventies film making at its worst. A silly, steaming F.