Love Affair
Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off course. Swooning passion and gentle comedy coexist in perfect harmony in the exquisitely tender Love Affair (nominated for six Oscars), a story so timeless that it has been remade by multiple filmmakers over the years—including McCarey himself, who updated it as the no less beloved An Affair to Remember.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by The Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme about the movie’s complicated production history
- New interview with Serge Bromberg, founder of Lobster Films, about the restoration
- Two radio adaptations, featuring actors Irene Dunne, William Powell, and Charles Boyer
- Two short films by Leo McCarey starring silent comedian Charley Chase: Looking for Sally (1925) and Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Megan McGurk
New cover by Raphael Geroni
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by The Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme about the movie’s complicated production history
- New interview with Serge Bromberg, founder of Lobster Films, about the restoration
- Two radio adaptations, featuring actors Irene Dunne, William Powell, and Charles Boyer
- Two short films by Leo McCarey starring silent comedian Charley Chase: Looking for Sally (1925) and Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Megan McGurk
New cover by Raphael Geroni
Cast
- Irene Dunne
- Terry McKay
- Charles Boyer
- Michel Marnay
- Maria Ouspenskaya
- Michel’s grandmother
- Lee Bowman
- Kenneth Bradley
- Astrid Allwyn
- Lois Clarke
- Maurice Moscovich
- Maurice Cobert
Credits
- Director
- Leo McCarey
- Screenplay by
- Delmer Daves
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Story by
- Mildred Cram
- Leo McCarey
- Cinematography by
- Rudolph Maté
- Musical score by
- Roy Webb
- “Wishing (Will Make It So)” by
- Buddy G. De Sylva
- “Sing My Heart” by
- Harold Arlen
- Ted Koehler
- Gowns by
- Howard Greer
- Edward Stevenson
A scene from Love Affair
