An Affair To Remember

Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr Director: Leo McCarey Original UK Premiere: 1957 Dvd Release: 4th March, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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An Affair to Remember is a 1957 movie. Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr star as a couple who meet on an ocean liner & promise to reunite in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if they still love each other. On the day of their scheduled rendezvous, tragedy strikes & the couple remains separated until fate once again intervenes. It was directed by Leo McCarey & was a remake of McCareys 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer. Nora Ephron s 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan, was inspired by An Affair to Remember & clips from the earlier film appear throughout. Warren Beatty later wrote & 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. Posters Of An Affair To Remember

Get out your handkerchiefs for this four-star weepie, a 1957 remake of the 1939 Love Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant & Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, who cant resist each other for a shipboard romance. But they decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meeting in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that set-up or the tragic romantic mishap that nearly splits them up? Can you keep dry eyes during the famous finale? Some prefer the original ; practically no one liked the underrated 1994 remake with Warren Beatty & Annette Bening. While occasionally a shade slow, this one soars on Grants charm & Kerrs noble suffering.

Cary Grant was an English -born American film actor. He was perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, not only handsome, but witty & charming. Born Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol, he had a confused & unhappy childhood. His mother was removed to a mental institution when Archie Leach was only nine. Grants father never told him the truth, leaving his son abandoned by one parent & betrayed by the other. He only learned twenty years later that she was still alive. That left Archie Leach/Cary Grant with both a certain insecurity in his relations with women & a secretiveness about his inner life that may explain his bravado & charm. Those traits also come through more directly in many of his performances, in films as different as Suspicion & Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock & tear-jerkers, such as Mr. Lucky. Grants unhappy childhood, by his own account, led him to crave applause & attention & to create a new persona that would attract it. After being expelled, in 1918 for an incident involving the girls toilets, he joined the Bob Pender stage troupe. Posters Of Cary Grant

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Deborah Kerr is a Scottish film actress. She was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland & originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadlers Wells in 1938. Having switched careers, she found immediate success as an actress, following up her debut in the British film, Contraband, in 1940. It was her role as a troubled nun in Michael Powell s Black Narcissus in 1947 which brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. Her English accent & manner led to a succession of roles, of which the only real departure from stereotype was in From Here to Eternity. However, her most famous role was as the governess Anna Leonowens in the film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King & I She was also well-known for her role opposite Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember. An un-successful six-time nominee for an Academy Award, she was finally awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition of the perfection, discipline & elegance of her screen work. Posters Of Deborah Kerr

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Leo McCarey was a movie director, screenwriter & producer. Witty & ironic, Leo McCarey is one of the greatest directors of the history of Movie. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, expecially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance & his fine sense of humour. He come into movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studio for the rest of that decade. Hired by Roach in 1923, McCarey initially wrote gags for Our Gang series & other studio stars, then produced & directed shorts-including a string of inventive & hilarious two-reelers with Charley Chase. It was while at Roach that McCarey teamed Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy together for the first time, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time. He only officially appeared as director of the duo shorts We Faw Down, Liberty & Wrong Again, but he wrote also several pictures of the team. By that time he was vice-president of production for the entire studio. Posters Of An Affair To Remember

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