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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.
Director
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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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