Bonjour Tristesse (1958 film)

Bonjour Tristesse
Film poster, designed by Saul Bass
Directed by	Otto Preminger
Screenplay by	Arthur Laurents
Based on	Bonjour tristesse 1954 novel by Françoise Sagan
Produced by	Otto Preminger
Starring	Deborah Kerr David Niven Jean Seberg Mylène Demongeot Geoffrey Horne
Cinematography	Georges Périnal
Edited by	Helga Cranston
Music by	Georges Auric
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	15 January 1958 (1958-01-15) (New York, US)
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Box office	$13.2 million[1]

Bonjour Tristesse (French "Hello, Sadness") is a 1958 British-American Technicolor film in CinemaScope,^[2] directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent movies and early sound movies.