A Valentine’s Day Tribute to Truly Romantic Movies: An Affair to Remember

February, the month that features Valentine’s Day, is also An Affair to Remember month. This makes perfect sense to me and other women of my generation who shed buckets of tears over this movie. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. A beautiful theme song that also makes me cry. So romantic. So tragic. Spoiler alert: Such a happy ending.

What was it about this 1957 movie that still makes my female friends sigh when I mention it? Why do we joke about watching it again someday at a senior pajama party?

Of course, we all had crushes on Cary Grant. He was so dashing, elegant, and handsome. Playing his usual role as a debonair playboy with a heart of gold, he falls in love with a plucky and pretty-but-not-too-sexy singer played by Deborah Kerr. Grant wants to be a painter but doesn’t feel he is good enough. Of course, there is an obstacle to their romance. They are both engaged to other people.

They come to what I thought, as a teen watching the movie, was a perfectly romantic way to resolve their dilemma. In six months, if they still wanted to be together and had ended their engagements, they would meet at the top…