An Affair to Remember - wikipedia An Affair to Remember An Affair to Remember Directed by Leo McCarey Produced by Leo McCarey Jerry Wald Screenplay by Delmer Daves Donald Ogden Stewart Leo McCarey Story by Leo McCarey Mildred Cram Starring Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Richard Denning Music by Hugo Friedhofer Cinematography Milton Krasner Edited by David Bretherton Production company Jerry Wald Productions, Inc. Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date July 2, 1957 ( 1957 - 07 - 02 ) Running time 115 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $2.1 million Box office $3.8 million An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, directed by Leo McCarey and filmed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film is considered one of the most romantic movies 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. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Soundtracks 5 Critical reaction 6 Awards and honors 7 Legacy 8 Home media 9 See also 10 References 11 External links Plot Nickie Ferrante ( Cary Grant ), a well - known playboy and dilettante in the arts, 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 chance meetings aboard the ship, they establish a friendship. When Terry joins Nickie on a brief visit to his grandmother when the ship anchors near her home at Villefranche - sur - Mer on the Mediterranean coast, she sees Nickie with new eyes and their feelings blossom into love. During their visit, it is revealed that Nickie has had a talent for painting, but has dropped said trait due to his critical attitude towards his own art. 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, Terry, in her haste 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, waiting for her at the observation deck at the top of the building, is unaware of the accident and, after many hours, finally concedes at midnight that she will not arrive, believing that she has rejected him. After the accident Terry, now unable to walk, refuses to contact Nickie, wanting to conceal her disability. Instead, she finds work as a music teacher. Nickie has pursued his talent as a painter and has his work displayed by an old friend, an art shop owner. Six months after the accident, she sees Nickie with his former fiancée at the ballet, which she herself is attending with her former boyfriend. Nickie does not notice her condition because she is seated and only says hello as he passes her. Nickie finally learns Terry 's address and, on Christmas Eve, makes a surprise visit to her. Although he steers the conversation to make her explain her actions, Terry merely dodges the subject, never leaving the couch on which she sits. He gives her a shawl that his grandmother left for Terry after she died. As he is leaving, Nickie mentions a painting that he had been working on when they originally met, and that it was just given away at the art shop to a woman who liked it but had no money. He is about to say that the woman was in a wheelchair when he pauses, suddenly suspecting why Terry has been sitting unmoving on the couch. He walks into her bedroom and sees his painting hanging on the wall, and a wheelchair concealed there. He now knows why she did not keep their appointment. The film ends with the two in a tight embrace, each realizing that the other 's love endures. In closing, Terry says, `` If you can paint, I can walk ; anything can happen, do n't you think ? '' Cast Cary Grant as Nicolò ( Nickie ) Ferrante Deborah Kerr as Terry McKay Richard Denning as Kenneth Bradley Neva Patterson as Lois Clark Cathleen Nesbitt as Grandmother Janou Robert Q. Lewis as Himself ( announcer ) Charles Watts as Ned Hathaway Fortunio Bonanova as Courbet Marni Nixon as Terry McKay ( singing voice ) Production The film was a remake of McCarey 's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. An Affair to Remember was almost identical to Love Affair on a scene - to - scene basis. McCarey used the same screenplay as the original film, which was penned by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart. Also, the character name `` Terry McKay '' appears in both films. Contributing to the success of the 1957 film is its theme song, `` An Affair to Remember ( Our Love Affair ) '', composed by Harry Warren and with lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson, which has since become a jazz standard. Sung by Vic Damone over opening credits. Soundtracks Continué Sung by Marni Nixon ( dubbing for Deborah Kerr ) The Tiny Scout ( He Knows You Inside Out ) Tomorrow Land You Make It Easy To Be True Critical reaction The film currently holds a 64 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews, despite receiving four Oscar nominations. Awards and honors The film was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song and Best Original Score at the 30th Academy Awards. AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes : `` Oh, it was nobody 's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there. '' -- Nominated Legacy Nora Ephron 's 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was partly inspired by An Affair to Remember, particularly the ending. References, clips and the theme song from the earlier film are used throughout. A 1994 remake, reverting to the original title of Love Affair, starred Warren Beatty ( who also wrote and produced ) and his wife Annette Bening. The film also featured Katharine Hepburn in her last screen appearance, portraying the male protagonist 's aunt ; this character replaces the grandmother from the original film. Mann, a 1999 Bollywood film starring Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala, was almost a scene - by - scene copy of this film. In 2009, the HBO film Grey Gardens licensed an aerial shot of The Pierre Hotel from this film. The Climax of 1980 Bollywood movie Ek Baar Kaho is inspired by the movie 's climax. A sound clip from this film, was used on Basement 's 2011 album I Wish I Could Stay Here in the Song `` Fading ''. The teen drama TV series Gossip Girl features an episode in season three titled, `` Last Tango, Then Paris '' where the characters Chuck and Blair decide to rekindle their love and agree to meet on top of the Empire State Building at 7 : 01pm, just like the movie. However, Blair is unable to meet Chuck because her maid goes into labor on their way there. This results in their `` final break - up ''. In the TV series 30 Rock, the character Tracy Jordan claims to have starred in a remake of An Affair to Remember called `` A Blaffair to Rememblack ''. In the TV series Family Guy, there is a cutaway gag of what the movie would be like with cell phones. When she tells him she 's paralyzed he abruptly ends the call and tosses the phone off the observation deck. Home media The film has been released in various formats including VHS, Laserdisc, VCD, DVD, and Blu - ray. See also List of American films of 1957 References Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox : A Corporate and Financial History ( The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series ). Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8108 - 4244 - 1. p250 Jump up ^ `` An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ) ''. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 09. Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Passions Jump up ^ Jaynes, Barbara Grant ; Trachtenberg, Robert. Cary Grant : A Class Apart. Burbank, California : Turner Classic Movies ( TCM ) and Turner Entertainment. 2004. Grant himself believed that Love Affair was superior. Jump up ^ `` Rotten Tomatoes ''. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 31 January 2017. Jump up ^ Grey Gardens DVD - 2009 - HBO - Audio commentary with executive producers Michael Sucsy, Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Rachael Horovitz External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to An Affair to Remember ( film ). 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( 1958 ) Satan Never Sleeps ( 1962 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=An_Affair_to_Remember&oldid=801856817 '' Categories : 1957 films English - language films 1950s romantic drama films American films American film remakes American romantic drama films Empire State Building in fiction Films about paraplegics or quadriplegics Films directed by Leo McCarey Films set in New York City 20th Century Fox films Screenplays by Donald Ogden Stewart Films set in the Atlantic Ocean Films set on ships Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Deutsch Ελληνικά Español فارسی Français Հայերեն Italiano עברית Magyar Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Українська 粵語 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 22 September 2017, at 09 : 59. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: who sang for debra kerr in an affair to remember
Answer: Marni Nixon