Directed by:
Leo McCareyCinematography:
Rudolph MatéComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Maurice Moscovitch, Lloyd Ingraham, Joan Leslie, Gerald Mohr, Scotty Beckett (more)Plots(1)
Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo Mccarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building until the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off course. Swooning passion and gentle comedy coexist in perfect harmony in the exquisitely tender Love Affair (nominated for six Oscars), a story so timeless that it has been remade by multiple filmmakers over the years including McCarey himself, who updated it as the equally beloved An Affair to Remember. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Irene Dunne
USA
Best movies:
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Charles Boyer
France
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Maria Ouspenskaya
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Rains Came (1939)
Kings Row (1942)
Lee Bowman
USA
Best movies:
Bataan (1943)
Go West (1940)
Love Affair (1939)
Astrid Allwyn
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Affair (1939)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Maurice Moscovitch
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Love Affair (1939)
Lloyd Ingraham
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Joan Leslie
USA
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Gerald Mohr
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Detective Story (1951)
Gilda (1946)
Scotty Beckett
USA
Best movies:
Kings Row (1942)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Dell Henderson
Canada
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
The Crowd (1928)
Our Relations (1936)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
Tom Dugan
Ireland
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Carol Hughes
USA
Best movies:
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Love Affair (1939)
D.O.A. (1949)
Bert Moorhouse
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ferike Boros
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Black Fury (1935)
Oscar O'Shea
Canada
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Leyland Hodgson
UK
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Rebecca (1940)