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An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr

19/7/2020

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An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr/Elle et Lui(film, 1957)

Year: 1957
Writer: Delmer Daves, Leo McCarey
Director: Leo McCarey
Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Costume design: Charles le Maire, Joan Joseff, Kay Reed, Mickey Sherrard 
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
Country: USA
Language: English | French | Italian
An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr/Elle et Lui(film, 1957)
An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is considered one of the most romantic films of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The film was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.

​The film was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song and Best Original Score at the 30th Academy Awards.
An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr/Elle et Lui(film, 1957)

The story

An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr/Elle et Lui(film, 1957)
Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a well-known playboy, meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) aboard the transatlantic ocean liner SS Constitution en route from Europe to New York. Each is involved with someone else. After a series of meetings aboard the ship, they establish a friendship, and Nickie invites Terry to visit his grandmother, Janou, while the ship is anchored near her home at Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast. 

As the ship returns to New York City, they agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months' time if they have succeeded in ending their relationships and starting new careers.

On the day of their rendezvous, however, Terry, hurrying to reach the Empire State Building, is struck down by a car while crossing a street. Gravely injured, she is rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, Nickie, after many hours of waiting for her at the top of the building, leaves at midnight, believing she has rejected him.

After the accident, Terry never contacts Nickie because of her disability.  She finds work as a music teacher. Nickie has pursued his painting and has his work displayed in art gallery. Six months after the accident, Terry and Nickie encountered at a ballet performance, both accompanied by their ex partners.

Nickie learns Terry's address and on Christmas Eve pays her a surprise visit, trying to have Terry explain why she failed her promise, but Terry says nothing. It is until when he finds his painting on the wall of her bedroom that he understands everything, and he holds Terry tightly.
An affair to remember(film, 1957) starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr/Elle et Lui(film, 1957)

The personnages

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Cary Grant as Nickie

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Deborah Kerr as Terry

Further interest

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How to steal a million(1966) starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

13/7/2020

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How to steal a million(1966) starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
How to Steal a Million is a 1966 American heist comedy film directed by William Wyler and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith and Charles Boyer. The film is set and was filmed in France, though the characters speak entirely in English. Audrey Hepburn's clothes were designed by Hubert de Givenchy.

Plot

​Prominent Paris art collector Charles Bonnet forges and sells famous artists' paintings. His disapproving daughter, Nicole, constantly fears that he will be caught. Late one night at their mansion, Nicole encounters a burglar, Simon Dermott holding her father's forged "Van Gogh." and accidentally wounds his arm with a gun, but later, Nicole would need the very same burglar to steal for her: a sculpture of Venus, another forgery, by her grand father. Simon duly agrees, and along the way, he manages to steal the heart of Nicole as well.
Audrey Hepburn in film How to steal a million(1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Hugh Griffith in film How to steal a million(1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in film How to steal a million(1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in film How to steal a million(1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in film How to steal a million(1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in film How to steal a million(1966)

Cast

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in film How to steal a million(1966)
​-Audrey Hepburn as Nicole Bonnet, the daughter of Charles Bonnet.
-Peter O'Toole as Simon Dermott, the 'thief' who helps Nicole to steal back the Venus.
-Hugh Griffith as Charles Bonnet, an art forger and owner of the Venus. His father sculpted the Venus after his mother.
-Eli Wallach as Davis Leland
Charles Boyer as DeSolnay
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Love affair(film, 1939)/Elle et Lui/Un grand amore/Tú y yo with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne

3/7/2020

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Love Affair is a 1939 American 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.The movie was remade in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, and again with the original title in 1994. 
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Year: 1939
Writer: Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stewart
Director: Leo McCarey
Music: Johann Martini
Costume design:Howard Greer, Edward Stevenson

Stars: Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya
Country: USA
Language: English | French
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The personnages:

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Charles Boyer
(28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978)
as Michel Marnet


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Irene Dunne
(December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990)
as Terry McKay



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Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya
(July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949​)
as grandmother Janou

The story: subtlety and nobility

It was a time when love was still expressed subtly and manifested nobly. French painter Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets American singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne) aboard a liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Although they are both already engaged, the two begin to flirt and slowly fall in love with each other. At a stop at Madeira, they visit Michel's grandmother Janou (Maria Ouspenskaya), who approves of Terry and wants Michel to settle down.

As the ship is ready to disembark at New York City, the two make an appointment to meet six months later on top of the Empire State Building. Michel chooses six months because that is the amount of time he needs to decide whether he can start making enough money to support a relationship with Terry. When the rendezvous date arrives, they both head to the Empire State Building. However, Terry is struck by a car right as she arrives, and is told that she may not be able to walk, though that will not be known for certain for six months. Not wanting to be a burden to Michel, she does not contact him, preferring to let him think the worst. Meanwhile, Terry finds a job working at an orphanage teaching the children how to sing.

Six months go by, and during Terry's first outing since the accident, the two couples 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.
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Thomas Leo McCarey 
(October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969)

"I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds, I like a little bit of the fairy tale. As long as I'm there behind the camera lens, I'll let somebody else photograph the ugliness of the world." 

True to his words, he is so selective with his camera that many scenes look like touchingly beautiful, both in Love affair and his own 1957 remake of it: An affair to remember, another elegant movie.
Screenwriters
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Delmer Daves ​
(July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977)

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Donald Ogden Stewart
​(November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980)

The costumes

Costume designers
Howard Greer (16 April 1896 – April 1974)
  • Howard Greer
  • (16 April 1896 – April 1974)

Irene Dunne dress designed by Howard Greer
Irene Dunne dress designed by Howard Greer
Edward Stevenson ​(May 13, 1906 – December 2, 1968)
  • Edward Stevenson
    ​(May 13, 1906 – December 2, 1968)

 Irene Dunne in Edward Stevenson dress with the scarf, film Love affair 1939
Irene Dunne in Edward Stevenson dress with the scarf

The ambiance

Time:   1930
Place:   New York; On board a ship
Music:  Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816)
Theme song: Plasir d'amour
The theme song Plasir d'amour was originally a poem written by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) in his novel Célestine.
There are two versions to this song, the "his"version if sung by a man, and the "her" version is sung by a woman.
Plaisir d'Amour 

Paroles (French)

Her version (the version sung by Irene Dunne)
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Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie

Tu m'as quittée pour la belle Sylvie
Elle te quitte pour un autre amant

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie

Tant que cette eau coulera doucement
Vers ce ruisseau qui borde la prairie
Je t'aimerai, te répétait Sylvie
L'eau coule encore, elle a changé pourtant.

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.

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his version:

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment,
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.
J'ai tout quitt
pour l'ingrate Sylvie.
Elle me quitte et prend un autre amant.
Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment,
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.
"Tant que cette eau coulera doucement
Vers ce ruisseau qui borde la prairie,
Je t'aimerai," me repetait Sylvie.
L'eau coule encor,

elle a chang pourtant.
Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment,
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.

The English translation for his version:

The Pleasure Of Love
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment
Love's sorrow lasts all throughout life.
I would have left everything
for faithless Sylvia,
But she left me and took another lover.
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment
Love's sorrow lasts all throughout life.
"As long as the water flows gently
To the stream that borders the meadow,
I will love you", repeated Sylvia to me.

The water still flows,
but she has changed.
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment
Love's sorrow lasts all throughout life.
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Roman Holiday(film, 1953)/Vacanze Romane/Vacances Romaines/Vacaciones en Roma with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, directed by William Wyler

2/7/2020

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Year: 1953
Writer: John Dighton (Screen Play) , Dalton Trumbo (Uncredited)
Director: William Wyler
Music: Georges Auric
Costume design: Edith Head

Stars: Gregory Pack, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Country: USA
Language: English
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Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won.

The film was shot at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the "Hollywood on the Tiber" era. The film was screened in the 14th Venice Film Festival within the official program.

In 1999, Roman Holiday was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film was shot at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the "Hollywood on the Tiber" era. The film was screened in the 14th Venice Film Festival within the official program.

In 1999, Roman Holiday was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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The personages

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Audrey Hepburn
(4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)
as Princess Ann

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Gregory Peck 
(April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003)
as Joe Bradley


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Edward Albert Heimberger
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(April 22, 1906-May 26, 2005)
as Irvin Radovich
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Tullio Carminati
(September 21, 1894-February 26, 1971)
as General Provno
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Hartley Power
(March 14, 1894-July 29, 1966)
as Mr. Hennessy
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The story: purity and perfection

Ann, a crown princess from an unnamed European nation, is on a state visit to Rome, becomes frustrated with her tightly scheduled life, and secretly leaves her country's embassy. The delayed effect of a sedative makes her fall asleep on a bench, where Joe Bradley, an expatriate reporter for the "American News Service", finds her, without recognizing who she is. Thinking that she is intoxicated, Joe lets her spend the night in his apartment.

The next morning, Joe hurries off late to work and gives his editor, Mr. Hennessy, false details of his attendance at the princess' press conference. When Hennessy informs him that the event had been cancelled, and when Mr. Hennessy shows him a news item about the princess' "sudden illness", Joe realizes the girl sleeping in his apartment is Princess Ann. Seeing an opportunity, Joe calls his photographer friend, Irving Radovich, asking him to secretly take pictures. Joe then tells Hennessy that he'll get an exclusive wide-ranging interview with the princess, and the two men have a deal: Hennessy offers to pay $5000 for the article, but Joe will pay him $500 if he does not get it.

Back home, Joe eagerly offered to be the tour guide of his room guest who calls herself Anya, but she politely declined. Joe doesn't give up by following her and "accidentally" encounter her on the Spanish Steps. This time, Joe convinces her to spend the day with him, and he has a hilarious adventure with her and a great chance to make a fortune with the help of his friend Irvin.

But they fall in love, but it's a love not to be. Ann bids farewell to the man she wants to live with, resuming her royal role, Joe bids farewell to his thoughts on making money with their adventure in Rome, keeping the memory only for himself, alone.
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Director
William Wyler
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(July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981)

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Screen writer (Uncredited)
Dalton Trumbo
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(December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976)

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Screen writer (credited)
​John Dighton
​(1909-1989)

The script was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo. though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit; instead, Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him. Trumbo's credit was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003. On December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored. ​

In 2016,  a film was made in his honor, named Dalton Trumbo. He was played by Bryan Cranston.

The costumes:

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​​Costume designer
Edith Head
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(October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981)

Audrey Hepburn with Paramount studio costume designer Edith Head, 1953.
Audrey Hepburn with Paramount studio costume designer Edith Head, 1953.
I knew she would be the perfect mannequin for anything I would make.  I knew it would be a great temptation to design clothes that would overpower her.  I could have used her to show off my talents and detract from hers, but I didn’t.  I considered doing it, believe me.’

-- Edith Head on creating Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe

The music

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​​Music composer
Georges Auric(French)
(
15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983)

The ambience

Time: 1950s
Place: Rome, Italy
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