A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
- Director
- Writers
- Delmer Daves(screenplay)
- Leo McCarey(screenplay)
- Mildred Cram(story)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Delmer Daves(screenplay)
- Leo McCarey(screenplay)
- Mildred Cram(story)
- Stars
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total
Dorothy Adams
- Mother at Rehearsal
- (uncredited)
Richard Allen
- Orphan
- (uncredited)
Al Bain
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Frank Baker
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
Mary Bayless
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
Dino Bolognese
- Italian TV Commentator
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
George Calliga
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
Mary Carroll
- Teacher
- (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Delmer Daves(screenplay)
- Leo McCarey(screenplay) (story)
- Mildred Cram(story)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring filming, Cary Grant's wife, Betsy Drake, had him visiting a hypnotist to help him quit smoking. She also packed him a hamper full of health food for his lunch, though he often finished it before starting filming because without cigarettes he was hungry all the time.
- GoofsWhen Nicky enters Terry's apartment, he calls her "Debbie".
- Quotes
Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... we've already missed the spring!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vain rakkaudesta (1982)
- SoundtracksAn Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey
Sung by Vic Damone over opening credits
reprised in French by Marni Nixon (dubbing for Deborah Kerr)
reprised in English by Marni Nixon (dubbing for Deborah Kerr)
Review
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Rusalka's eighteenth film review: A pearl in Pink Champagne
This film has to be the best romantic film that I've ever seen, even above Gone With the Wind, and Casablanca, but on the same level as The English Patient (my favorite film of all time). After I saw Sleepless in Seattle when I was in high school and caught the many references to this film, I decided to check it out for myself. Needless to say, with the whole "shipboard romance" aspect of it, and the promise to meet again in six months atop the Empire State Building of all places, I quickly became hooked. The scene that takes place on the French Riviera with Nickie's grandmother playing the piano, oh God is it beautiful! Cary Grant is so debonair and suave and Deborah Kerr is so ravishing and stunningly beautiful, that it always demands repeated viewings from me (at least twice a year).
Seeing this film always makes me wonder if something like the kind of relationship describes within this film would actually BE possible in real life. Would and could someone actually leave the person they were engaged to in order to marry a complete and total stranger they just met days ago? I'd like to think that it could, but then again I am nothing but a hopeless romantic. The final scene always tears my heart out no matter how many times I've seen it. I'm always sobbing. Watching this film around the fourteenth day of February (even if you are single) is always a treat. It allows our fantasies to take wing so that we may think we are actually the one meeting our beloved atop the Empire State Building in a thunderstorm.
Watch this film with a box of industrial-strength kleenex nearby.
My rating: 4 stars
Seeing this film always makes me wonder if something like the kind of relationship describes within this film would actually BE possible in real life. Would and could someone actually leave the person they were engaged to in order to marry a complete and total stranger they just met days ago? I'd like to think that it could, but then again I am nothing but a hopeless romantic. The final scene always tears my heart out no matter how many times I've seen it. I'm always sobbing. Watching this film around the fourteenth day of February (even if you are single) is always a treat. It allows our fantasies to take wing so that we may think we are actually the one meeting our beloved atop the Empire State Building in a thunderstorm.
Watch this film with a box of industrial-strength kleenex nearby.
My rating: 4 stars
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- Rusalkathewaternymph
- May 6, 2003
Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,850,000
- Gross worldwide
- $3,851,689
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.40 : 1
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