Love Affair is a romantic film starring
Irene DunneIrene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama .-Early life:Born Irene Marie...
and
Charles BoyerCharles Boyer was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with...
and featuring
Maria OuspenskayaMaria Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.-Early life:...
. It was directed by
Leo McCareyThomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies...
and written by
Delmer DavesDelmer Daves was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.-Life and career:Born in San Francisco, Delmer Daves first pursued a career as a lawyer...
and
Donald Ogden StewartDonald Ogden Stewart was an American author and screenwriter.-Life:His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity , in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I.After the war he started to write and found...
, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.
Love Affair was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible...
,
Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
,
Best Supporting ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
, Best Original Screenplay (Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey),
Best Original SongThe Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
(Buddy G. DeSylva, For the song "Wishing"), and
Best Art DirectionThe Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...
(
Van Nest PolglaseVan Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...
,
Alfred HermanAlfred Herman was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair....
).
The film was
remadeA remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
in as
An Affair to RememberAn Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The movie was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles...
with
Cary GrantArchibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor...
and
Deborah KerrDeborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, CBE was a British stage, television and film actress...
in the lead roles, using a very similar screenplay, and in as
Love AffairLove Affair is a 1994 romantic drama film made by Mulholland Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and produced by Warren Beatty from a screenplay by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, based on the 1939 screenplay by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden...
, starring
Warren BeattyHenry Warren Beatty is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early life and education:Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's, Bellevue neighborhood...
,
Annette BeningAnnette Francine Bening is an American actress.-Early life:Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative...
, and, in her last feature film appearance,
Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, television and stage.Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys, two...
.
The film is currently in the public domain, and can be found at the
Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web....
.
Love Affair is a romantic film starring
Irene DunneIrene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama .-Early life:Born Irene Marie...
and
Charles BoyerCharles Boyer was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with...
and featuring
Maria OuspenskayaMaria Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.-Early life:...
. It was directed by
Leo McCareyThomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies...
and written by
Delmer DavesDelmer Daves was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.-Life and career:Born in San Francisco, Delmer Daves first pursued a career as a lawyer...
and
Donald Ogden StewartDonald Ogden Stewart was an American author and screenwriter.-Life:His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity , in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I.After the war he started to write and found...
, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.
Love Affair was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible...
,
Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
,
Best Supporting ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
, Best Original Screenplay (Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey),
Best Original SongThe Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
(Buddy G. DeSylva, For the song "Wishing"), and
Best Art DirectionThe Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...
(
Van Nest PolglaseVan Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...
,
Alfred HermanAlfred Herman was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair....
).
The film was
remadeA remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
in as
An Affair to RememberAn Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The movie was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles...
with
Cary GrantArchibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor...
and
Deborah KerrDeborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, CBE was a British stage, television and film actress...
in the lead roles, using a very similar screenplay, and in as
Love AffairLove Affair is a 1994 romantic drama film made by Mulholland Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and produced by Warren Beatty from a screenplay by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, based on the 1939 screenplay by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden...
, starring
Warren BeattyHenry Warren Beatty is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early life and education:Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's, Bellevue neighborhood...
,
Annette BeningAnnette Francine Bening is an American actress.-Early life:Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative...
, and, in her last feature film appearance,
Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, television and stage.Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys, two...
.
The film is currently in the public domain, and can be found at the
Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web....
.
Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
/Turner EntertainmentTurner Entertainment Company, Inc. is an American media company founded by Ted Turner. Now owned by Time Warner, the company is largely responsible for overseeing its library for worldwide distribution.-Background:Turner Entertainment Co...
currently has the rights to release a DVD from the original film elements in the Americas and Australia, while British rights are owned by Universal StudiosUniversal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six major American movie studios. Its main motion picture production/distribution arm is called Universal Pictures. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California...
. So far, neither company has decided to make a release.
Plot
French painter Michel Marnet (Charles BoyerCharles Boyer was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with...
) meets American singer Terry McKay (Irene DunneIrene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama .-Early life:Born Irene Marie...
) aboard a linerAs a common noun, Liner may refer to:*Eye liner, a type of makeup*Liner, a sable brush used by coach painters*An Ocean liner, a type of modern-day passenger ship...
crossing the Atlantic OceanThe Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres , it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface and about one-quarter of its water surface area. The first part of its name refers to the Atlas of Greek...
. They are both already engaged, he to heiress Lois Clarke (Astrid AllwynAstrid Allwyn was a stage and film actress.Allwyn made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. In films, she often played the woman from whom the male star escaped, for example Charles Boyer's character's fiancé in Love Affair or James Stewart's in Mr...
), she to Kenneth Bradley (Lee BowmanLee Bowman was an American film and television actor.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman began his film career playing a bit part in Swing High, Swing Low ....
). Nonetheless, they fall in love. At a stop at MadeiraMadeira is a Portuguese archipelago in the mid Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands...
, they visit Michel's grandmother Janou (Maria OuspenskayaMaria Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.-Early life:...
), who approves of Terry.
The couple make an appointment to meet six months later on top of the Empire State BuildingThe Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion...
. However, tragedy strikes; Terry is struck by a car on her way to the rendezvous and is told that she may be crippled, though that will not be known for certain for several months. Not wanting to be a burden to Michel, she does not contact him, preferring to let him think the worst.
They meet by accident at the theater, though Terry manages to conceal her condition. Michel then visits her at her apartment and finally learns the truth. He assures her that they will be together no matter what the diagnosis will be.
Cast
- Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama .-Early life:Born Irene Marie...
as Terry McKay
- Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with...
as Michel Marnet
- Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.-Early life:...
as Grandmother Janou
- Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman was an American film and television actor.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman began his film career playing a bit part in Swing High, Swing Low ....
as Kenneth Bradley
- Astrid Allwyn
Astrid Allwyn was a stage and film actress.Allwyn made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. In films, she often played the woman from whom the male star escaped, for example Charles Boyer's character's fiancé in Love Affair or James Stewart's in Mr...
as Lois Clarke
- Maurice Moscovitch as Maurice Cobert, art dealer
Production crew
- Art Direction by Van Nest Polglase
- Set Decoration by Darrell Silvera
- Costume Design by Howard Greer / Edward Stevenson
- Assistant direction by James H. Anderson
- Associate art direction by Alfred Herman
- Sound by John L. Cass
- Special Effects by Vernon L. Walker
- Montage by Douglas Travers
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