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Love Affair

Love Affair

1939
Romance, Comedy
1h 28m
French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love aboard ship. They arrange to reunite 6 months later, after Michel has had a chance to earn a decent living. Unfortunately, their meeting is foiled when Terry is injured minutes before their rendezvous. (imdb)
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Love Affair

1939
Romance, Comedy
1h 28m
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Rated 24 Nov 2012
97
98th
Remarkable filmmaking, McCarey brilliantly combines comedy and melodrama in this paean to one of life's highest ideals--marriage. Boyer and Dunne are magnificent, no more so than in the final scene which involves them setting aside masks and uncovering long-dormant feelings. McCarey's visual style melds spirit with physical (with reflected images of ES building and the painting), while his patience in several scenes (such as Madeira and the theater) allows for depth of feeling to develop.
Rated 30 Jul 2013
67
19th
Much like the remake, only the actors make this worthwhile. Their chemistry is not as good as Grant and Kerr, but this one is shorter and its lows are not as terrible, so it washes out. The rest is a boring and badly written idealized romance, with some rather wonky ideals.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
58
32nd
# 849
Rated 16 Mar 2014
70
41st
Irene Dunne gives a wonderful performance, and practically seems like she was made for this part; the off-the-cuff, improvised feel of a lot of the dialogue also adds to the production's charm. Unfortunately though I had a tough time assimilating (or even figuring out) that whole volte-face business regarding the car accident...it came across as pretty pat and Hollywoodish.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
16
88th
Star Rating: ★★★★1/2
Rated 27 May 2022
48
36th
Leo McCarey has a nice touch to everything he does - he had good pace and musical instincts as well as visual aesthetic. Still, this one didn't work for me. While there's nothing glaringly wrong with the script, most of it is just too average to move as a drama or amuse as a comedy; and the absolute intolerability of Charles Boyer may be a contributing factor. On the whole I found it watchable but forgettable.
Rated 29 Dec 2021
65
64th
A simple story made very engaging, indeed completely absorbing at times, by witty and romantic writing with performances to match by Boyer and Dunne (Irene as Terry is particularly funny and poignant in what she says and does). The sets and lighting all serve to foreground love. Like many (good) films of this decade, it treats the subject matter with both sincerity and mockery.
Rated 14 May 2015
60
89th
The original inspiration to An Affair to Remember (1957). I haven't seen the 1957 remake, so I can't make an comparison. But what I can say is that Love Affair (1939) is a warm and heartfelt story. Irene Dunne is close to great in it and steals the picture easily, and Boyer isn't bad either. The main set-backs are that in this format moves too slow and is routed too much in that heavy old school way of filming romance scenes, where nothing else matters then talking that dreamy enchanted state.
Rated 13 Dec 2014
80
81st
watched: 2014, 2023
Rated 17 Mar 2024
53
58th
A well-made Hallmark movie
Rated 25 Feb 2012
50
40th
Better than An Affair To Remember, but still far too much singing
Rated 31 Jan 2010
92
89th
This original is even better than "An Affair to Remember."
Rated 05 Jan 2021
90
80th
Viewed January 1, 2021.
Rated 24 Feb 2022
75
38th
Started off well but became more dull as the story progressed. Needed much more of the sexual tension and verbal humour between the leads that was promisingly displayed in the beginning.
Rated 19 Dec 2022
71
79th
I came to this movie after finding out that An Affair to Remember was a remake of it. This was a nice, breezy watch but lacked the graceful charm of Cary Grant and the secondary characters were very underwritten. Charles Boyer is decent in his role but Irene Dunne was much better in hers.
Rated 02 Feb 2024
80
78th
I watched An Affair to Remember over two years ago and thought it was a little emotionally manipulative. Somehow, though, with essentially the same script, I'm a little more romanticized by this version. Perhaps it's Dunne being positively radiant. I confess to liking Cary Grant a bit more than Boyer; otherwise, for me, this one seems to outshine its successor.

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