{"id":10999,"date":"2016-04-22T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10999"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:05:21","slug":"an-affair-to-remember-1957-leo-mccarey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10999","title":{"rendered":"An Affair to Remember (1957, Leo McCarey)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someday I will be able to recognize Deborah Kerr from one movie to the next. Here she’s a singer who runs into celebrity playboy Cary Grant on a cruise ship. After they’re seen together a few times, everyone on the ship assumes they’re having an affair, so while they’re trying to cover up an affair they’re not even having, they fall for each other. Actually I suppose it happens at a shore stop when Cary takes Deborah to meet his granny (Cathleen Nesbitt of Family Plot<\/em>, not as frail as she looked, lived another 25 years). It wasn’t enough to be attractive and in love in the 1950’s – you had to prove your family values by being nice to granny. Second half: painting, empire state building, secrets, and that awful reveal when he finds out she didn’t mean to stand him up, but was hit by a car on the way to their rendezvous. When I try typing up more story details, my eyes get strangely blurry until I can’t see the screen.<\/p>\n

Remake of McCarey’s own Love Affair<\/a><\/em>, and nominated for almost as many oscars, again with no wins (apparently Bridge on the River Kwai<\/em> was really fucking good). I definitely preferred this version – Kerr is Irene Dunne’s equal, Grant blows away Charles Boyer, and the movie’s color\/widescreen look is intensely appealing. Late McCarey, made a decade after Good Sam<\/a><\/em>. Grant was between To Catch a Thief<\/em> and Indiscreet<\/a><\/em> (another love-scandal movie) and Kerr a few years after From Here to Eternity<\/a><\/em>. As their fiancees: Creature with the Atom Brain<\/em> star Richard Denning and Desk Set<\/a><\/em> computer programmer Neva Patterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday I will be able to recognize Deborah Kerr from one movie to the next. Here she’s a singer who runs into celebrity playboy Cary Grant on a cruise ship. After they’re seen together a few times, everyone on the ship assumes they’re having an affair, so while they’re trying to cover up an affair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,2081,73,711,487],"class_list":["post-10999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-car-crash","tag-cary-grant","tag-deborah-kerr","tag-leo-mccarey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11040,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999\/revisions\/11040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}