Hankies out for the Grant and Kerr weepie

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER CLASSIC MOVIE

Weepie from 1957, regarded as one of the most romantic movies of all time. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr (above) star as a playboy and a woman who fall in love while travelling from Europe to New York on an ocean liner despite being in relationships already (think Brief Encounter afloat). At the end of the trip they agree to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months’ time but the planned tryst goes wrong. Yes, 1993’s Sleepless In Seattle was heavily indebted to this film and even contains scenes from it.

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