An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember
Directed by	Leo McCarey
Written by	Leo McCarey; Mildred Cram
Produced by	Leo McCarey; Jerry Wald
Starring	Cary Grant; Deborah Kerr; Richard Denning
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	July 2, 1957
Running time	119 min.
Language	English

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 in a 1994 remake that reverted to the original title, Love Affair, with wife Annette Bening. It featured Katharine Hepburn in a small but pivotal role, which proved to be her last screen appearance.

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler 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 and to his fiance. Later, he and his fiance 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 about a painting that he had done of her. All that he knows is that a crippled woman had picked it up but he did not know her identity. When Nickie goes to see her, she treats him as if she doesn not care for him. He reproaches by saying that he waited for her all day on the Empire State Building and that he did not want to leave the skyscraper. After he tells her that a crippled woman picked up his painting of her. When he spots the picture in her room, he realizes at last her true reason for not meeting him on that fateful day. Template:End spoiler

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Trivia

A Bollywood film with the title Mann starring Amir Khan and Manisha Koirala is inspired from this movie.

External link

An Affair to Remember at IMDb