Love Affair (1939)
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya
Synopsis:
A playboy meets a lounge singer on board a transatlantic cruiser, both on their way to be wed. By journey's end many things have occurred, and they agree to leave it six months before deciding they are meant for each other. The anticipated rendezvous never takes place, however, and proves to be merely the first test of their desire.
Review:
Although written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, this bears the unmistakeable stamp of McCarey's good-natured verbal jousting. While the story is impossibly cheesy (everyone is so understanding, the orphans are little angels), and exists just to sell the concept of 'love is two people made for each other', the way it sets about proving this is the key: two heavenly creatures being charming, funny, and kind to each other, under the sure hand of a master director of actors who knows when to move the camera. He remade it in 1957 as An Affair to Remember.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya
Synopsis:
A playboy meets a lounge singer on board a transatlantic cruiser, both on their way to be wed. By journey's end many things have occurred, and they agree to leave it six months before deciding they are meant for each other. The anticipated rendezvous never takes place, however, and proves to be merely the first test of their desire.
Review:
Although written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, this bears the unmistakeable stamp of McCarey's good-natured verbal jousting. While the story is impossibly cheesy (everyone is so understanding, the orphans are little angels), and exists just to sell the concept of 'love is two people made for each other', the way it sets about proving this is the key: two heavenly creatures being charming, funny, and kind to each other, under the sure hand of a master director of actors who knows when to move the camera. He remade it in 1957 as An Affair to Remember.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya
Synopsis:
A playboy meets a lounge singer on board a transatlantic cruiser, both on their way to be wed. By journey's end many things have occurred, and they agree to leave it six months before deciding they are meant for each other. The anticipated rendezvous never takes place, however, and proves to be merely the first test of their desire.
Review:
Although written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, this bears the unmistakeable stamp of McCarey's good-natured verbal jousting. While the story is impossibly cheesy (everyone is so understanding, the orphans are little angels), and exists just to sell the concept of 'love is two people made for each other', the way it sets about proving this is the key: two heavenly creatures being charming, funny, and kind to each other, under the sure hand of a master director of actors who knows when to move the camera. He remade it in 1957 as An Affair to Remember.