An Affair to Remember

Starring: Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr Director: Leo McCarey

DVD Features:

Additional Release Material:

• Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

Description by OLDIES.com:

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this poignant and humorous love story. Good-looking Nicky Ferrante (Grant) and breathtaking former nightclub singer Terry McKay (Kerr) meet on an ocean liner headed for New York and fall deeply in love. Although each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.

Product Description:

In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time, they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true love does not always run smooth, and tragedy threatens to tear the couple apart. Leo McCarey directed both the original (LOVE AFFAIR) and this remake, and viewers often amiably battle over which film is the more touching. This much-loved film features the Academy Award-nominated title song and a splendid supporting cast.

Plot Synopsis:

Leo McCarey's lighthearted romance combines with tragedy to tell the tale of two lovers who long to be together but are engaged to others.

Plot Keywords:

Drama | Essential Cinema | Love Story | New York City | Recommended | Romance | Tear Jerker | Theatrical Release | Tragedy

Production Notes:

• AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER figures prominently in SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, in which the female characters watch it constantly, with tears in their eyes. (The men watch it uncomprehendingly and untouched.)
• This version is a remake of McCarey's 1939 film LOVE AFFAIR. According to Richard Roud in his CINEMA: A CRITICAL DICTIONARY, McCarey preferred the first version because "Cary Grant's irony in the remake took away from the 'beauty' of the original." The film was remade again in 1994 with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.
• The film was shown on the American Movie Classics cable network in its original Widescreen format in February 1994.

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