Love Affair is a romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.

Love Affair was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Original Story (Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey), Best Original Song (Buddy G. DeSylva, For the song "Wishing"), and Best Art Direction (Van Nest Polglase, Alfred Herman).

The film was remade in as An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the lead roles, using a very similar screenplay, and in as Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, and, in her last feature film appearance, Katharine Hepburn.

The film is currently in the public domain, and can be found at the Internet Archive. Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment currently has the rights to release a DVD from the original film elements in the Americas and Australia, while British rights are owned by Universal Studios. So far, neither company has decided to make a release.

Plot

French painter Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets American singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne) aboard a liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean. They are both already engaged, he to heiress Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn), she to Kenneth Bradley (Lee Bowman). Nonetheless, they fall in love. At a stop at Madeira, they visit Michel's grandmother Janou (Maria Ouspenskaya), who approves of Terry.

The couple make an appointment to meet six months later on top of the Empire State Building. However, tragedy strikes; Terry is struck by a car on her way to the rendezvous and is told that she may be crippled, though that will not be known for certain for several months. Not wanting to be a burden to Michel, she does not contact him, preferring to let him think the worst.

They meet by accident at the theater, though Terry manages to conceal her condition. Michel then visits her at her apartment and finally learns the truth. He assures her that they will be together no matter what the diagnosis will be.

Cast

• Irene Dunne as Terry McKay
• Charles Boyer as Michel Marnet
• Maria Ouspenskaya as Grandmother Janou
• Lee Bowman as Kenneth Bradley
• Astrid Allwyn as Lois Clarke
• Maurice Moscovitch as Maurice Cobert, art dealer

Production crew

• Art Direction by Van Nest Polglase
• Set Decoration by Darrell Silvera
• Costume Design by Howard Greer / Edward Stevenson
• Assistant direction by James H. Anderson
• Associate art direction by Alfred Herman
• Sound by John L. Cass
• Special Effects by Vernon L. Walker
• Montage by Douglas Travers

References

External links

• Review of Love Affair by Edwin Jahiel