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An Affair to Remember (1957)
Director(s)	Leo McCarey
Producer(s)	Jerry Wald
Top Genres	Drama, Romance
Top Topics	New York, Romance (Drama)

Featured Cast:

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Cary Grant
(as Nickie Ferrante)

Deborah Kerr
(as Terry McKay)

Richard Denning
(as Kenneth Bradley)

An Affair to Remember Overview:

An Affair to Remember (1957) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Leo McCarey and produced by Jerry Wald.

SYNOPSIS

In this legendary tearjerker that served as the female touchstone in Sleepless in Seattle, the world's most eligible bachelor (Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner, he meets Kerr and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman. McCarey and Grant in a sentimental mood. First made by McCarey in 1939 as Love Affair with Dunne and Boyer, later remade as Love Affair (1994) with Beatty and Bening.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1957 --- Ceremony Number 30 (source: AMPAS)

Award	Recipient	Result
Best Cinematography	Milton Krasner	Nominated
Best Costume Design	Charles LeMaire	Nominated
Best Music - Scoring	Hugo Friedhofer	Nominated
Best Music - Song	Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey	Nominated

BlogHub Articles:

An Affair to Remember – Part 3: Michael Schultz and Car Wash at the 2025 TCM Film Festival

By shadowsandsatin on Jul 16, 2025 From Shadows and Satin

As I mentioned in my recap on the 2025 TCM Film Festival, one of the films I saw was the 1976 film Car Wash, which starred Ivan Dixon and Bill Duke, and featured appearances from a spate of now-familiar faces, including Franklin Ajaye, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Clarence Muse, Garrett Morris, Mel... Read full article

An Affair to Remember: The 2025 TCM Film Festival ? Part 2

By shadowsandsatin on Jul 12, 2025 From Shadows and Satin

As I?ve said before about the TCM film festival, it was the best of times . . . it was the best of times! And if you ask me, there?s never a bad time to relieve those awesome experiences, so I hope you?ll join me in skipping down memory lane as I travel a few months back in time to the 2025 event. S... Read full article

An Affair to Remember: The 2025 TCM Film Festival – Part 1

By shadowsandsatin on Jul 5, 2025 From Shadows and Satin

You know the drill. Better late than really, really late, amirite? The 2025 TCM Film Festival (TCMFF) may have ended nearly three months ago, but the fun and excitement are as fresh today as they were in April ? and I hope you?ll join me in my recap of my fest experience this year! Today?s post will... Read full article

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: An Affair to Remember (1957)

By Carol Martinheira on Feb 13, 2022 From The Old Hollywood Garden

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: An Affair to Remember (1957) On February 13, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Tomorrow?s Valentine?s Day! So, of course, ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES is getting all mushy and romantic with none other than An Affair to Remember (1957, dir. Leo McCar... Read full article

DOUBLE BILL #18: Love Affair (1939) and An Affair to Remember (1957)

By Carol Martinheira on Sep 10, 2018 From The Old Hollywood Garden

DOUBLE BILL #18: Love Affair (1939) and An Affair to Remember (1957) On September 10, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized It’s not unusual for a director to remake their own movie. Hitchcock did it, Cecil B. DeMille did it (twice!), and Leo McCarey did it. Love Affair (... Read full article

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Quotes from

Nickie Ferrante: But you have such an honest face.
Terry McKay: I have?
Nickie Ferrante: I can trust you can't I?
Terry McKay: Yes, I suppose so.
Nickie Ferrante: Good, come with me.
Terry McKay: Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles?

Terry McKay: What makes life so difficult?
Nickie Ferrante: People.

Nickie: There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

Facts about

Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant improvised many of their scenes throughout filming, and a number of lines that made it to the final cut of the film came from the actors' improvisation.

References to this movie in Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle, revitalized interest in the film, and led to 2 million additional sales of the 1957 classic on VHS.

Deborah Kerr plays Terry McKay, previously played by Irene Dunne in Love Affair, of which this film is a remake - both were directed by Leo McCarey. The year before this film was made, Kerr played Anna Leonowens in The King and I, also a role that had previously been played by Irene Dunne in the black-and-white classic Anna and the King of Siam. "The King and I" is a musical based on the same book.

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