Love Affair
1939 · Movie · NR · 88 min
★ 7.3(127)unSUB Rating
Two people meet on an ocean voyage and fall for each other despite complicated lives back home. They agree to go their separate ways and reunite months later at a famous New York landmark, trusting that time and circumstance won’t change what they feel.
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Details
- Years
- 1939
- Release date
- 1939-04-07
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Max quality
- SD
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.0/10 (127 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a classic, bittersweet romance with sparkling banter and a big emotional payoff, especially if you like An Affair to Remember; Not for you if you dislike old-fashioned melodrama or heavy sentimentality.
Pros: charming shipboard romance; witty, warm dialogue; heartfelt emotional pull | Cons: very sentimental at times; tonal shift to melodrama; later stretch feels slower
Themes
- new york city
- orphanage
- madeira
- artist
- ocean liner
- champagne
- playboy
- love
- singer
- chapel
- grandmother
- empire state building
- +3 more
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1940 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 1940 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Story · 1940 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1940 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Production Design · 1940 · nominated
Cast & crew
Irene Dunne
as Terry McKay
Charles Boyer
as Michel Marnet
Maria Ouspenskaya
as Grandmother
Lee Bowman
as Kenneth Bradley
Astrid Allwyn
as Lois Clarke
Maurice Moscovitch
as Maurice Cobert
- MB
Mary Bayless
as Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Scotty Beckett
as Boy on Ship (uncredited)
Ferike Boros
as Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
Mary Bovard
as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Directed by Leo McCarey