Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by? —IMDb
Los Angeles-born Leo McCarey was, along with Frank Capra, one of the most popular and successful comedy directors of the pre-World War II era. Unlike Capra, however, McCarey’s success endured well after World War II, and like Capra, his work was still influencing filmmakers in the 1990s. Originally an attorney, McCarey entered films by a circuitous route shortly after starting his own practice, beginning as an assistant to Tod Browning. During the 1920s, he went to work for Hal Roach Studios as a gag writer and director and, within two years, was a vice president. It was while at Roach that McCarey teamed Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together for the first time, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time. As a director, he imposed a frantically paced, breakneck speed to comedy which quickly became his trademark in the 1930s. A triple-threat as writer and producer as well as director, McCarey made some of the most inspired comedies of the decade, including The Milky… read more
For Italian readers, my article on An Affair to Remember featured in the new La Furia Umana issue (n. 13) http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=548:la-differenza-fra-charles-boyer-e-cary-grant&catid=25:rapporto-confidenziale&Itemid=27
A very well-written film about a famous man married to a wealthy woman, and meets a married woman on a boat. They joke, they meet his grandmother... It turns and churns. An American well-known romantically tinged film made for big audiences which is indeed - as stated - very well-written and at times incredibly sweet for its time.
There is a terrific series titled ”Auto-Remakes” starting today at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The series, which runs through March
Above: "I am not now nor have I ever been..." Yes, they actually do that scene. Since The Forgotten is a home not only to the films that