Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant are wonderful in McCarey's remake of his own Love Affair, which is inflated by a couple of music numbers (though the routine with the kids is fun).
McCarey: "The difference between Love Affair and An Affair to Remember is very simply the difference between Charles Boyer and Cary Grant. Grant could never really mask his sense of humour - which is extraordinary - which is why the second version is funnier. But I still prefer the first." ('Who the Devil Made It?') An elegant film, e.g. where they read their telegrams with their backs to each other.
"Winter must be very cold for those who have no memories to keep them warm."
Villefranche (in Monaco) looks still very much the same today.
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| Elegance in action |
With Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt ('Janou', Family Plot, French Connection II, The Parent Trap, Separate Tables, Three Coins in the Fountain).
Loved the English newsreader at the beginning.
Photographed by Milton Krasner, beautifully scored by Hugo Friedhofer (they were both Oscar nominated).
The little girl Grant picks up at Grandmother's house, Priscilla Garcia, later in Charley Varrick, is still with us.
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