An Affair to Remember (1957)

Director:

Leo McCarey

Writers (WGA):

Delmer Daves (screenplay) and
Leo McCarey (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

11 July 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

On the Riviera...across the ocean...and all over New York!

Plot:

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Plot Keywords:

Love | Playboy | Christmas | Paralytic | Painting

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Nov. 28

11:00 PM

PBS

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dorothy Adams	...	Mother at Rehersal (uncredited)
Richard Allen	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Geneviève Aumont	...	Gabriella (uncredited)
Al Bain	...	(uncredited)
Butch Bernard	...	(uncredited)
Dino Bolognese	...	Italian TV commentator (uncredited)
Paul Bradley	...	Man (uncredited)
Mary Carroll	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Norman Champion III	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Kathleen Charney	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Brian Corcoran	...	Boy, age 5 (uncredited)
Tony De Mario	...	Waiter (uncredited)
Minta Durfee	...	Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Michka Egan	...	Waiter on ship (uncredited)
Suzanne Ellers	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Juney Ellis	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Theresa Emerson	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Jesslyn Fax	...	Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
Priscilla Garcia	...	Marie, French Child (uncredited)
Ken Kane	...	(uncredited)
Terry Ross Kelman	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Walter Woolf King	...	Doctor in Hospital (uncredited)
Mike Lally	...	Ship's Dance Floor Extra (uncredited)
Jack Lomas	...	Sign Painter (uncredited)
Robert Lynn	...	Second Doctor (uncredited)
Nora Marlowe	...	Gladys, Terry's Maid (uncredited)
Nita Mathews	...	Party guest (uncredited)
Helen Mayon	...	Nurse (uncredited)
Anthony Mazzola	...	Page boy (uncredited)
Louis Mercier	...	Mario (uncredited)
Matt Moore	...	Father McGrath (uncredited)
Alberto Morin	...	Bartender (uncredited)
Scotty Morrow	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Alena Murray	...	Airline stewardess (uncredited)
Marni Nixon	...	Terry McKay (singing voice) (uncredited)
Tom Nolan	...	Redhead (uncredited)
Don Pietro	...	Page boy (uncredited)
Patricia Powell	...	Blonde (uncredited)
Jack Raine	...	British TV commentator (uncredited)
Danny Scott	...	(uncredited)
Sarah Selby	...	Miss Lane (uncredited)
Marc Snegoff	...	(uncredited)
Marc Snow	...	Ship's photographer (uncredited)
Bert Stevens	...	Maitre D' (uncredited)
Tina Thompson	...	Orphan (uncredited)
Roger Til	...	French commentator (uncredited)
Geraldine Wall	...	Miss Webb (uncredited)

Directed by
Leo McCarey

Writing credits (WGA)
Delmer Daves		(screenplay) and
Donald Ogden Stewart		(screenplay) originally uncredited and
Leo McCarey		(screenplay)
Leo McCarey		(story) and
Mildred Cram		(story)

Produced by
Jerry Wald	....	producer

Original Music by
Hugo Friedhofer

Cinematography by
Milton R. Krasner		(director of photography) (as Milton Krasner)

Film Editing by
James B. Clark

Art Direction by
Jack Martin Smith
Lyle R. Wheeler

Set Decoration by
Paul S. Fox
Walter M. Scott

Makeup Department
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist
Helen Turpin	....	hair stylist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gilbert Mandelik	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Harry M. Leonard	....	sound
Charles Peck	....	sound

Special Effects by
L.B. Abbott	....	special photographic effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Charles Le Maire	....	executive wardrobe designer

Editorial Department
Leonard Doss	....	color consultant

Music Department
Ken Darby	....	vocal supervisor
Pete King	....	orchestrator
Lionel Newman	....	conductor
Edward B. Powell	....	orchestrator

Production Companies

• Jerry Wald Productions

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1957) (USA) (theatrical)
• Fox Video (????) (USA) (VHS) (pan/scan)
• 20th Century Fox (1957) (France) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Fox Video (1993) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1963) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Hong Kong:I | Australia:G | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/12 | New Zealand:G | Argentina:13 | Canada:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Peru:PT | USA:Approved (certificate #18547) | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

Jerry Wald Productions

Trivia:

Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant improvised many of their scenes throughout filming, and a number of lines that made it to the final cut of the film came from the actors' improvisation.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: A camera shadow falls on a man and a plant when Terry comes out of the dress shop.

Quotes:

Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... And we've already missed the spring!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who's the Boss?: An Affair to Forget (#8.2)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)

"Darling, don't look at me like that."

Grant's charming philanderer Nicky Ferrante, a renowned bachelor, and Kerr's American nightclub singer Terry McKay meet aboard a transatlantic luxury liner steaming back to New York via Naples and surrender—in the midst of good humor—to their undeniable chemistry…

Unfortunately, both are hampered with others lovers… At the end of the voyage, they make a promise… In six months, if both are free they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building, "the nearest thing they have to heaven in New York."

In the day of the meeting, the reformed Grant put his paintbrushes away and luckily paces the skyscraper's roof, but Kerr, looking up to heaven to see him, is involved in a serious accident…

What fallows is almost unbelievable as Grant yields to pompous cynicism, unaware Kerr is too proud to let him know the truth…

With four Oscar nominations, and with attractive settings as the French Riviera, and two appealing beautiful people sharing pink champagne, Leo McCarey's pretty good romantic film gives off flashes of gaiety and sways with longing hearts to be filled with love and life…