An Affair to Remember
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
IMDb profile

An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Image File history File links AffairtoRemember. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... Jerry Wald, born Jerome Irving Wald (16 September 1911 - 13 July 1962), was a producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... This article is about the British actor. ... Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe Award-winning Scottish actress who was also awarded an honorary Academy Award and BAFTA recognition. ... Categories: Stub | 1914 births | 1998 deaths ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the British actor. ... Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe Award-winning Scottish actress who was also awarded an honorary Academy Award and BAFTA recognition. ...

The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute.^[1] 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. Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... There is also a musical group named Love Affair. ... Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990) was a five-time Academy Award-nominated American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. ... Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. ... Delmer Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. ... Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) an American author and screenwriter, member of the Algonquin Round Table. ...

Contributing to the success of the 1957 film is its 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. Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... Harold Adamson (1906-1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s. ... Vic Damone (born June 12, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an ItalianAmerican singer. ... Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe Award-winning Scottish actress who was also awarded an honorary Academy Award and BAFTA recognition. ... Marni Nixon (born February 22, 1930) is a singer whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in movies earned her the sobriquet The Ghostess with the Mostess. She was born Margaret McEathron in Altadena, California and began singing at a young age in choruses. ... This article is about the 1956 film, for the musical on which the film was based, see The King and I The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. ...

Plot Synopsis

Nickie Ferrante (Grant), a well known playboy, recently engaged to an American heiress, meets Terry McKay (Kerr) on an ocean liner. After dinner and conversation, they decide that perhaps it would be best if they went their separate ways. However, they have a few mishaps, leading them to the final conclusion that they cannot avoid each other for the remaining few days aboard. When the liner makes port in a small town, Nickie invites Terry to come ashore with him, to meet his grandmother, a widow and retired concert pianist. This leads to a famous scene, where the theme "An Affair to Remember" makes its main appearance, with Jenou (the grandmother) playing, and Terry singing along. That night on the ship Nickie finds Terry, who has been crying, insisting, "That's what beauty does to me." It is here that they share their first kiss. However, since everyone aboard the ship knows who Nickie is, and his famous engagement, they have to keep their affair a secret, not seeing each other for two days. Finally, on the last day of the journey, a nosy traveler asks the pair to autograph some pictures that he bought from the ship's photographer, who is selling them on an upper deck. The secret is out, so Nickie and Terry make the most of their last night together. When they part, they don't know how things are going to work between them: they are desperately in love with one another, but Nickie doesn't have any money that's really his own, and neither does Terry. The next morning, as they are pulling into New York, Terry gives Nickie a note, which says they will meet in six months, when they have both been working and have broken up with their fiancees. Nickie suggests they reunite on top of the Empire State Building, and Terry enthusiastically agrees, saying "It's the nearest thing to Heaven we have in New York". The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, New York on the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. ...

Each of them breaks up with their fiancees, and we see a progression of each's work over the next few months. Tery has gone to work in Boston as a nightclub headliner, Nickie as a painter. Each is very successful, and on July 1, they head to the Empire State Building for their 5:00 meeting. Terry, running late, rushes out of her cab to cross the street and is hit by a car and badly hurt. Nickie waits for her all evening, even in the rain. Terry wakes up in the hospital and cries out for Nickie. It is then that the viewer learns how badly she's been hurt: it's unlikely she'll be able to walk again, though the doctors can't be entirely sure yet. By her side the whole time is her former boyfriend, Ken, who is still in love with her. As Terry gets better, she insists that Nickie is not to know of her accident, until she can be sure of the results. We then cut to a year later. With help from a minister, Terry has secured a teaching job with a children's choir. Meanwhile, Nickie has returned to touring the world as a means of escape. He comes to the same small town where he and Terry had visited Jenou, who has passed away. He is given a shawl by the caretaker, who said that Jenou wanted Terry to have it. When he comes home to New York, his former fiancee asks him to go to an opera. On the way out, Nickie stoops to pick up a dropped handbag---and finds himself face-to-face with Terry and Ken. Stiff "hellos" are exchanged, and Nickie turns and marches out, ex-fiancee on his arm. Terry looks as though she might faint, and even puts her hand over her heart. In the cab on the way home with Ken, who is acting as her aide and escort, Terry explains to him why she refuses to burden Nicke with the knowledge that she is in a wheelchair, and may never walk again. According to her, she knows that he would want to take care of her, something she couldn't let him do because he couldn't afford it. Nickie, meanwhile, is walking home by himself, having been dropped off by his ex-girlfriend's car. He is brooding and silent, clearly still in love with Terry, though he is trying not to be. Not wanting to explain her standoffishness to Nickie, Terry doesn't contact him. However, things change when Terry is left by herself at home on Christmas Eve because she's not feeling well. As her neighbor is leaving, there is a knock on the door--it is Nickie. He claims to have stumbled across Terry accidentally in the phonebook, and decided that he had to see her 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 around as to why Terry wasn't there and she asks that there be no more questions. He starts to leave, but then remembers and gives her the shawl that his grandmother had promised to her. With his back to the door, hand on the knob, Nickie tells her that he had painted a picture of her wearing the shawl. He says that a woman had come into the display room where his paintings were, and loved it, seeing what Nickie hoped Terry would in it. As he tells the story, he slowly realizes that Terry has not once gotten up from her place on the couch nor has she shifted position, not even to greet him when he first came in. He fully takes it in that she is in a robe, her legs are covered by a blanket, and she is unable to support herself without the stack of pillows behind her. He runs across the room and flings open her bedroom door, where he finds the picture--and Terry's wheelchair. He realizes at last her true reason for not meeting him on that fateful day and they are finally re-united. "If you can paint," cries Terry, her arms wrapped abound Nickie, "I can walk! Anything's possible, don't you think?" The movie ends with the two of them holding each other, wiping each other's tears of apology and joy.

Cast

• Cary Grant - Nickie Ferrante
• Deborah Kerr - Terry McKay
• Richard Denning - Kenneth Bradley
• Neva Patterson - Lois Clark
• Cathleen Nesbitt - Grandmother Janou
• Robert Q. Lewis - Himself - Announcer
• Charles Watts - Ned Hathaway
• Fortunio Bonanova - Courbet

This article is about the British actor. ... Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe Award-winning Scottish actress who was also awarded an honorary Academy Award and BAFTA recognition. ... Categories: Stub | 1914 births | 1998 deaths ... Neva Patterson (b, February 10, 1922 in Nevada, Iowa, USA) is an American character actress who has starred in movies and on television. ... Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE, born on (November 24, 1888 – and died on August 2, 1982) was an British actress of Welsh and Irish extraction. ... Robert Q. Lewis (April 5, 1921 – December 11, 1991) was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor. ... Fortunio Bonanova is the pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll (January 13, 1895 - 1969), who was a baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor, as well as occasionally functioning as a producer and director. ...

Remakes

Mann, a Bollywood film starring Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala is inspired by this movie. Mann is a 1999 Indian movie directed by Indra Kumar. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... Aamir Hussain Khan (; Hindi: आमिर हुसेन ख़ान, Pashto, Urdu: عامر حسین خان) (born March 14, 1965) in Mumbai, India, is a highly acclaimed and a prominent National Film Award-winning Indian film actor and producer. ... Manisha Koirala, born on August 16, 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a well-known Bollywood actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. ...

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. ^{[citation needed]} Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ... Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. ... Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies but has also worked in other film genres. ...

A 1994 remake reverting to the original title of Love Affair was written and interpreted by Warren Beatty, featuring his wife Annette Bening as the female protagonist, and also Katharine Hepburn in a small but pivotal role, which would prove to be her last screen appearance. Love Affair Love Affair is a 1994 romantic drama film made by Mulholland Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. ... Henry Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Annette Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress. ... It has been suggested that Tom Hepburn be merged into this article or section. ...

Color and Print

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Short

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External links

• An Affair to Remember at the Internet Movie Database

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