An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey · 1957 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A playboy and a nightclub singer, each engaged to someone else, fall in love on a transatlantic liner and agree to meet in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if both come free. McCarey remade his own 1939 'Love Affair', absent from this archive, nearly shot for shot, and the second version became the tearjerker archetype American romance keeps returning to.

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