An Affair to Remember
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| Directed by | Leo McCarey |
| Produced by | Leo McCarey Jerry Wald |
| Written by | Leo McCarey Mildred Cram |
| Starring | Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Richard Denning |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 2, 1957 |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | English |
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An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute. It was directed by Leo McCarey and was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. An Affair to Remember was almost identical to Love Affair on a scene to scene basis. McCarey used the same screenplay as the original film, which was penned by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart.
Contributing to the success of the 1957 film is its haunting theme song "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)" composed by Harry Warren with lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson. The song is sung by Vic Damone during the opening credits and then sung later by Deborah Kerr's character, a nightclub singer. Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed for Kerr in the film The King and I.
Nora Ephron's 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was inspired by An Affair to Remember, and clips from the earlier film and its theme song are used throughout. This publicity sparked a new love of the film for many movie fans of younger generations.
Warren Beatty wrote and starred with his wife Annette Bening in a 1994 remake that reverted to the original title, Love Affair. It featured Katharine Hepburn in a small but pivotal role, which proved to be her last screen appearance.
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[edit] Synopsis
Nickie Ferrante (Grant), a well known playboy and painter, meets Terry McKay (Kerr) on an ocean liner. They fall in love with each other despite the fact they are both engaged to other people.They agree to reunite on top of the Empire State Building in six months' time if they still feel the same.
On the day of their rendezvous, Terry is struck by a car and crippled. Nickie waits all the day long, even in the rain. Terry wakes up in the hospital and asks to be taken into the Empire State Building. She realizes that she is crippled, and becomes a teacher. Nickie returns to his old job. His former fiancee asks him to go to an opera which Terry is also attending. Nickie sees Terry and can only bring himself to say hello to her. He is too proud to ask her why she didn't show up, and she is too proud to tell him that she is crippled.
Not wanting to burden him, Terry doesn't contact him, leading him to believe she has changed her mind about their love. The couple remains separated until fate again intervenes. Nickie decides to visit Terry to tell her he wanted to apologize for not keeping their appointment at the Empire State Building, even though he had been there. Their conversation eventually comes about to why Terry wasn't there and she asks that there be no more questions. He gives her the shawl that his grandmother had promised to give her when they had visited on the Riveria at a port of call.
He told her that he had painted a picture of her wearing the shawl. All that he knows is that a crippled woman had picked it up but he did not know her identity. After he tells her that a crippled woman picked up his painting of her, he goes into her bedroom and spots the picture. He realizes at last her true reason for not meeting him on that fateful day.
[edit] Cast
- Cary Grant
- Deborah Kerr
- Richard Denning
- Neva Patterson
- Cathleen Nesbitt
- Robert Q. Lewis
- Charles Watts
- Fortunio Bonanova
- George Winslow
- Dorothy Adams
- Richard Allen
- Geneviève Aumont
- Al Bain
- Butch Bernard
- Dino Bolognese
- Paul Bradley
- Mary Carroll
- Norman Champion III
- Kathleen Charney
- Brian Corcoran
- Tony De Mario
- Minta Durfee
- Michka Egan
- Suzanne Ellers
- Juney Ellis
- Theresa Emerson
- Jesslyn Fax
- Priscilla Garcia
- Ken Kane
- Terry Ross Kelman
- Walter Woolf King
- Mike Lally
- Jack Lomas
- Robert Lynn
- Nora Marlowe
- Nita Mathews
- Helen Mayon
- Anthony Mazzola
- Louis Mercier
- Matt Moore
- Alberto Morin
- Scotty Morrow
- Alena Murray
- Marni Nixon
- Tom Nolan
- Don Pietro
- Patricia Powell
- Jack Raine
- Danny Scott
- Sarah Selby
- Marc Snegoff
- Marc Snow
- Bert Stevens
- Tina Thompson
- Roger Til
- Geraldine Wall
[edit] Trivia
A Bollywood film with the title Mann starring Amir Khan and Manisha Koirala is inspired by this movie.
