An Affair to Remember

The great love of my life is an American love story from the year 1957.

He was after you and no others ( 1953) and above will be warned (1960 ) Front of house friends one of three feature films, in which Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant were standing together in front of the camera.

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On board a luxury liner, the night club singer Terry McKay and idolized playboy Nickie Ferrante encounter. Both are engaged to be married, and her future husband are very well off. But both love to their partners is not too fresh, and in addition they find each other very likeable. They spend the day on board together harmoniously, interested eyed by the other passengers.

During a stopover in Villefranche they visit his grandmother Janou, and of her experiences Terry that Nickie was a gifted painter before the dolce far niente devoted himself. The two women are on a first attempt, Janou promises to give Terry their white lace shawl later.

Back on board, he makes her to marry him, he promises to try to earn back the money as a painter. Terry accepts his proposal, but they want only examine their feelings for each other and also, without that, fiance, any financial existence. So they arrange shortly before landing in New York a meeting on top of the Empire State Building, to be held in six months.

Back on land, both are haunted by the past. On Nickie waits Lois, and to Terry Ken. Lois has arranged a television interview in which it comes to their wedding, but Nickie are doing evasive answers. Terry, however, informed Ken clearly about their wedding plans changed, and he can not change his mind it.

The next weeks and months to show the daily life of Terry and Nickie. Terry is working again as a nightclub singer, Nickie can sell the first pictures. Personal contact they have during the time together but not, they had not changed their addresses.

On the agreed date for the Rendezvous Terry is approached next to the Empire State Building by a car and hospitalized. However, Nickie waits on the panoramic terrace of the tower for hours in vain.

Terry is now confined to a wheelchair, and the doctors do not yet know if she will ever walk again. Do not try to tell Nickie some of her accident. As she explains Ken later, they feared, Nickie would then care for them, but what he could not afford. A memento of their time together, they worried, however - a painted by Nickie picture she shows with Janous scarf.

Nickie, however, does not know why Terry has put it, is bitter. As Christmas is approaching, accompanied Ken, who took care in the meantime moving to Terry, they go to the theater. There, they meet by chance Nickie. Ken wants to enlighten him about Terry's accident, but it prevents him. So there is only a brief encounter, without words.

On Christmas Nickie visited her yet in her apartment and takes her by the scarf Janou who has since died. Terry receives him sitting on a couch, with a blanket over his legs, and are still not what they actually held by the Empire State Building. In Go, already at the door, Nickie mentioned the picture that he has painted of Terry with Janous scarf. He stated that he had let it to a young woman who had meant something the image, give it away for free, because they had no money and on top of that ... Here Nickie increased. His gaze flies from Terry, who has moved across the conversation only her upper body, on the walls of the room; Nickie then goes into her bedroom, where he finds the painting. "Darling, if you can paint, I can walk again, too," are Terry's words, as they hug.

Background

  • In 1994, the theme was filmed for the third time: Perfect Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn. This version differs little from the second version, especially the dialogue at the end is taken literally. Although the romantic music of Ennio Morricone is the Hugo Fried Hofer keep up, but otherwise is Warren Beatty just not Cary Grant and Love Affair no An Affair to Remember.
  • The great love of my life actually consists of two parts, or rather, from a comedy and then out of a melodrama. First, Deborah Kerr is loose, lively and quick-witted, as they no longer looked for You and no other. Then, about from her visit to Janou, it is pathetic, affected and emotional.
  • The viewers it was made similarly. If they are initially enthusiastic about the apt dialogues, they must resort to increasingly later handkerchief. Especially the last 20 minutes of stretch us to an agonizing torture rack, because it still does not come to a happy ending. You want to help, but you can see powerless.
  • The song passages in which Deborah Kerr et al " An Affair to Remember " "sings" Marni Nixon was the voice double. She was in The King and I for that matter. The film composer and arranger Alfred Newman was of the opinion, in no other, the interplay between vocal and facial expressions did so well as these two.

Reviews

  • René Classen ( Filmdienst ): After the love of my life in the blockbuster Sleepless in Seattle was regarded as the quintessential romantic movie praised.
  • Leo McCarey (Director): The difference between Love Affair and the love of my life is quite simply the between Charles Boyer and Cary Grant. Grant could not hide, which is why the second version is much funnier his exceptional sense of humor.
  • Geoffrey Wansell: As the great love of my life in July 1957, in the cinemas, bleated the critics of his " old-fashioned affectation ." The "New Yorker" newspaper wrote that the film was " terribly sentimental ", and "Time" underlined that only Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant had kept with her acting performance this sugary Posse from suffocating in their maudlin packaging. The " Los Angeles Times " had only praise for the film and its director left.

Awards

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards in 1957, but did not win.

  • Best Cinematography: (Milton R. Krasner )
  • Best Costume Design: (Charles LeMaire )
  • Best Music: ( Hugo Friedhofer )
  • Best Song: An Affair to Remember ( Harry Warren )
1957 in film Screenplay Jerry Wald Film score James B. Clark (director) Romance film Dream Wife Fictional film Love Affair (1939 film) Irene Dunne
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