Monday, February 21, 2011

Love Affair (1939)



Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1940 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
Irene Dunne
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Maria Ouspenskaya
Best Art Direction
Van Nest Polglase
Alfred Herman
Best Music, Original Song
Buddy G. DeSylva
For the song "Wishing"
Best Picture
(RKO Radio).
Best Writing, Original Story
Mildred Cram
Leo McCarey


RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Leo McCarey
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer fall in love on a cruise ship. After docking in New York, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building. Boyer makes it but Dunne is run over in the street on the way and is no longer able to walk. During her long recovery she takes up teaching music at an orphanage and he becomes a successful painter. Their reunion is bittersweet. Admittedly Boyer and Dunne have great chemistry, but simply too cloying and melodramatic, especially those singing orphans.


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