Why didn't Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr kiss in the movie Affair To Remember?

Question

One kiss on the boat stairway showed their legs only - implying a kiss - and then at the end - again, no kiss when it was obviously missing.

The original movie 'Love Affair' had numerous kisses between the leads - Irene Dunne and James Mason.

Must be some interesting reason why they're missing in the remake...

Answer 1

In the reservoir of top romantic movies for Valentines Day, 'an affair to remember' occupies a supreme position. The credit for its wonderful direction goes to Leo McCarey. The star cast of this superb movie includes Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson and Cathleen Nesbitt.



The movie revolves around Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a well-known playboy. While being on the ocean liner, he happens to meet Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr). It was at that time that he was going to meet his fiancée. But, despite that, they fall in love with each other. Before going apart, they mutually decide that if after 6 months also their feelings are the same for each other, they will meet at the top of the Empire State Building.



When their rendezvous day came, both were on top of the world and were heading for meeting their beloved. But, destiny had decided something else. Kerr met with an accident and she became crippled. She didn't want to become a burden for Ferrante and so she decided not to contact him. The story moves on and the two lovers remained separated till the fate intervenes.

Answer 2

Rarely has a new hit movie revived such an intense interest in an older one as Sleepless in Seattle has. Viewers practically need to camp out on the doorsteps of video stores to secure copies of An Affair to Remember. The Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr weeper, a big hit in its day, is both the emotional and dramatic inspiration for the current Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic fantasy, which deals in such old-fashioned fare as magic and destiny.



An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's remake of his own Love Affair from 1939, is absolutely shameless: After a shipboard romance, Grant and Kerr plan to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building. On the way, she gets hit by a cab and is crippled; he thinks she didn't show up, and she doesn't want him to see her the way she is. From there, things get even more complicated and pitiful.

Answer 3

Wasn't it Charles Boyer in the original with Irene Dunne???



Anyway, I think it was that society was a bit straight-laced and prudish during the 1950s officially in the movies I don't know when the earlier version was made but before 1933 they had no censorship. Even in the 1930s they were suggestive and the writers were more liberated. In the 1950s, the government was more authoritarian under Republicans during the anti-Communist era and more conservative rather than in the 1930s during the depression under Roosevelt when writers and artists were supported by the government and could do what they wanted. Just a guess.

Answer 4

An Affair to Remember is great. Also consider his comedies: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Philadelphia Story The Awful Truth The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer I Was a Male War Bride And Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich and Suzy with Jean Harlow. Even that early in his career he was loaded with star power.

Answer 5

G'day Torase,



Thank you for your question.



The only explanation is that it was made during the Hays Code where " Excessive and lustful kissing was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might stimulate the lower and baser element."



Regards

Answer 6

Was the move good?? so does it really matter. Its all in the imagination you know..