Good morning how is you. Did you know during February we celebrate An Affair to Remember the movie? I sure wish Uncle Chuck and Suzzie was here to watch the movie with me. Since there not and I don’t think Charlie would like the film would you like to watch it with me?
An Affair to Remember Month
Everyone knows February, is the month for romance and Valentines, but it’s also An Affair to Remember Month. Celebrating and remembering the classic 1957 romantic tearjerker starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. I have a question for you have you seen An Affair to Remember because I don’t think I have but I want to purchase the DVD for myself for Christmas. Would you like to join me for a Movie Night?
An Affair to Remember opened in theaters in the Summer of 1957. The saga tells the story of two lovers, both already engaged to another and how they find, lose and then rediscover one another. An Affair to Remember has been called one of the most beautiful romances ever filmed by the American Film Institute.
Like many of the film’s fans, Cary Grant would later admit that he would break into tears watching it.
An Affair to Remember Facts
Now, I have a question for you. Did you know An Affair to Remember is actually a remake? Director Leo McCarey’s 1957 version is a scene-by-scene remake of the film Love Affair which he made in 1939. Critics generally agree the film is not an improvement on the original but a fin production in its own right.
The theme song is performed by Vic Damone over the opening credits and later in the film by Marni Nixon (as lip-synced by Deborah Kerr).
The film Sleepless in Seattle was patterned mainly after An Affair to Remember.
A 1994 remake (which used the original title Love Affair) starred Warren Beatty and featured Katherine Hepburn in her final screen appearance.
Like his character in the movie, Cary Grant met and fell in love with his wife, Actress Betsy Drake aboard the Queen Mary.
During the filming, Robert Wagner, a young actor at the time, came by to watch Cary Grant work. One day Grant told the young Wagner how excited he had finally mastered breath control while performing. This impressed the young Wagner who said, “It was his sixty-second picture, and he was still honing his craft.”
HOW TO OBSERVE #AnAffairToRememberMonth
Rent or buy An Affair to Remember. Keep a tissue handy. Use #AnAffairToRememberMonth to share on Social Media.
HISTORY
An Affair to Remember Month was first observed in 1996 when An Affair to Remember was published in Chase’s Calendar of events.
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Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star as a playboy and a nightclub singer who embark on a shipboard romance and eventually fall completely in love with each other. They decide to make a pact that when they arrive back at their separate homes, they will end their respective relationships, and rendezvous in six months’ time at the top of the Empire State Building. The course of true love, however, never does run smoothly. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song and Best Original Score.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
