An Affair to Remember (1957)
Directed by Leo McCarey
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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A prime slab of '50s beef directed by veteran Leo McCarey (Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth), the picture includes CinemaScope photography and four gratuitous songs, including "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)," sung by Vic Damone over the opening credits.
After his Oscar-winning hit The Awful Truth , director Leo McCarey came back 20 years later with another sophisticated Cary Grant film, but this one goes on to tug at the heartstrings.
Despite their apparent on-set improvisations, Grant doesn’t have the easy comic and romantic chemistry with Deborah Kerr as he had with Irene Dunne in other Leo McCarey films such as The Awful Truth or Penny Serenade or with Katherine Hepburn in Holiday or Bringing Up Baby.
A prime slab of '50s beef directed by veteran Leo McCarey (Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth), the picture includes CinemaScope photography and four gratuitous songs, including "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)," sung by Vic Damone over the opening credits.
He went on to great success and more Oscars for films like Love Story (1939), Going My Way (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), My Son John (1952), and An Affair to Remember (1957), but Make Way for Tomorrow remained his personal favorite.
I think this has much to do with his best-known films today being Going My Way, which is widely regarded (and fairly) as corny sentimentality; An Affair to Remember , which is widely regarded (and unfairly) as a musty melodrama for middle-aged women; and Duck Soup , which is widely regarded as being a director-proof Marx Brothers vehicle, as though the fact that it is also nearly universally praised as their best film is a mere coincidence.
Despite their apparent on-set improvisations, Grant doesn’t have the easy comic and romantic chemistry with Deborah Kerr as he had with Irene Dunne in other Leo McCarey films such as The Awful Truth or Penny Serenade or with Katherine Hepburn in Holiday or Bringing Up Baby.
McCarey’s mature works followed, including Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), The Awful Truth (1937) and Love Affair (1939) (the original and better version of McCarey’s later An Affair to Remember [1957]).
A prime slab of '50s beef directed by veteran Leo McCarey (Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth), the picture includes CinemaScope photography and four gratuitous songs, including "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)," sung by Vic Damone over the opening credits.