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Sunday, May 19, 2013

What you've all been waiting for....

Ok, so like I promised, I am providing you with my next post about Cary Grant....*insert sigh*



So, the Cary Grant movie this week is "An Affair to Remember." Talk about a movie that makes me CRY!!!! One of the greatest movies of all time, just sayin...

So Nickie Ferrante(Grant) is a famous playboy back in the day. He is engaged to the wealthy Lois Clark. Nickie isn't wealthy, and hasn't worked a day in his life, but the movie gives the impression that his family did come from wealth. Anyhow, while on a cruise near Europe, he meets the gorgeous Terry Mckay (Deborah Kerr). She is a singer and is engaged to Ken Bradley. While on the cruise, Nickie tries to woo Terry, but she is reluctant, as she knows his reputation. So when the cruise ship stops along the French Riviera, Nickie brings Terry to see his grandmother Janou, a wonderful, amazing old woman who instantly takes a liking to Terry, and they got along very well. Terry admires Janou's shawl, and it is made clear that Janou will not be alive much longer, when Janou says that someday soon, she will give it to her. Janou plays the piano, Terry sings, and then it is time for Janou and Nickie to leave. Nicki and Terry realize their love for each other before they reach New York City again, and plan to meet at the Empire State building in six months to get married, so they have enough time to make some money for their new life together. Nickie takes up painting again and Terry begins to sing as well. Six months later they are both rushing to the Empire State Building. On her way there, Terry gets hit by an automobile and can't make it to the building to meet Nickie. Meanwhile, Nickie is waiting at the top of the building for hours before he finally decides to go home. He is crushed.

It is revealed that Terry is paralyzed. She does not want to tell Nickie because she knows he will want to pay for her to get well, but she knows he doesn't have money, and she doesn't want her former fiance to help because if Nicki found out, he wouldn't be happy. So she doesn't let Ken help her, and she doesn't get ahold of Nicki to tell him what happened. Instead, she gets a job at a local church/ school, teaching children to sing. But when Ken brings Terry to a ballet, Nicki sees her there, but doesn't know that she is paralyzed. He thinks she has ditched him. 

It is also made known that Nicki has begun to sell his paintings, but there is one painting he does not want to sell. It is a painting of the now deceased Janou, and Terry. On christmas day, he finds Terry's apartment and brings her Janou's shawl. Terry is quite upset at Janou's passing, but she does not stand up from the couch obviously, and Nicki tries to make her feel guilty about not coming to the Empire state building, but Terry dodges the subject. Finally, Nicki mentions the painting he did not want to sell, but his agent sold to a woman in a wheelchair. Just as the words escape his mouth, Nicki realizes what happened and who the woman in the wheelchair was. He keeps talking but goes over to a door and opens it. There, in the next room, hanging on the wall is the painting. He rushes over to Terry and apologizes. and Terry tells him not to cry. "If you can paint, I can walk; anything can happen, don't you think?"




Sniff. I need a good romantic cry. I think I will go watch it...

God Bless 'til I get back from Beeton-ton!!!