Movie Reviews: An Affair to Remember (1957)

Inimitable, retro romantic comic-drama ___ 8/10
Review by Brian Wright

An Affair to RememberTerry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. And we’ve already missed the spring.


The famous quotation. But what is the context? Trying to reconstruct: it does take place in a dialog sequence between Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and Nick Ferrante (Cary Grant) aboard ship (a transoceanic cruise destined for New York)… and moves the plot along. By this time—following a significant side trip to an island where they visit Nick’s grandmother (Cathleen Nesbitt)—they have fallen in love. I’m pretty sure Terry is expressing her melancholy that, in the words of the song, “it’s sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.” Continue reading