Love Affair

Director: Leo McCarey

Overview

Leo McCarey's frequently-remade romantic comedy stars Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, two cruise ship travelers who fall instantly in love despite the fact that both are already engaged to other people. After their trip, they resolve to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building, but their plans are disrupted by fate.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/24/2018
UPC:	0887936725005
Original Release:	1939
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	2,177

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Irene Dunne	Terry Mackay
Charles Boyer	Michel Marnet
Maria Ouspenskaya	Grandmother Janou
Astrid Allwyn	Lois
Maurice Moscovitch	Cobert
Lee Bowman	Kenneth
Scotty Beckett	Boy on Ship
Joan Leslie	Autograph Seeker
Frank McGlynn Sr.	Orphanage Superintendent
Dell Henderson	Cafe Manager
Carol Hughes	Nightclub Patron,Nightclub Patron
Ferike Boros	Boarding House Keeper
Oscar O'Shea	Priest
Tom Dugan	Drunk with Christmas Tree
Lloyd Ingraham	Doctor
Leyland Hodgson	Doctor
Lee Brown	Kenneth Bradley
Phyllis Kennedy	Maid
Bess Flowers	Actor
Gerald Mohr	Extra
Harold Miller	Couple on Deck
Roy Webb	Composer

Technical Credits

Delmer Daves

Donald Ogden Stewart

Delmer Daves	Screenwriter
Donald Ogden Stewart	Screenwriter
Leo McCarey	Producer
Vernon L. Walker	Special Effects
John L. Cass	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Love Affair is among the most influential romance films of its era, a smooth tale of a shipboard romance and the obstacles that love must overcome. At the core of the film are the performances of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne as the lovers. They make the audience want their love to succeed and overcome the obstacles in its way. Leo McCarey was among Hollywood's top commercial directors of the 1930s and 1940s, and Love Affair, with its 87-minute running time and brisk pace, is a good example of his skills. In the 1950s, McCarey attempted to become a more serious director, but the public rejected his propagandist anti-Communist films. The one success he found in the 1950s was a direct remake of Love Affair -- An Affair to Remember, which was the inspiration for the later hit Sleepless In Seattle.