“An Affair to Remember” is a classic romantic drama Directed and written by Leo McCarey.
A French playboy Nickie
Ferrante (Cary Grant) full of continental
charm and an American, former nightclub singer, Terry McKay (Deborah
Kerr) meet aboard a ship.
She sees him as just another playboy and he
sees her as stand-offish, but inevitably they fall in love.
After visiting his Grandmother (Cathleen
Nesbitt) on the island of Madeira he planned to travel to New
York to marry a rich heiress, which has been well publicized, as have his many
antics and affairs, and Terry was returning home to her long-time boyfriend
Kenneth Bradley (Richard Denning).
However on the crossing their plans change,
but he has a poor track record relationship wise and no history of working for
a living so in order to give him the chance to earn an honest living and prove
himself, which would also give them time to deal with their current
relationships.
So, they agree to distance themselves but
arrange to reunite six months later on top of the Empire State building.
In the meantime, he returns to painting and is
reasonably successful at it and she becomes a music teacher.
On the agreed date, Nickie is waiting patiently
for Terry, who is racing to join him however fate intervenes resulting in
misunderstanding and heartbreak and only fate can correct its intervention to
save their relationship.
