"Winter must be so cold for those with no warm memories.."

A Very Vintage Christmas post #7

Today is December 15th, so we've got 10 days til Christmas!

Crazy!

An Affair to Remember

1957

Starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr

During a winter holiday on board a cruise ship heading from Europe to New York City, an unlikely pair meets and falls in love. Nickie Ferrante (Grant) is a very wealthy, playboy, socialite. Terry McKay (Kerr) is just your average, beautiful, well-educated woman. The only problem is that Nickie is in a very well publicized relationship, headed to the altar in a short period of time, and Terry is also in a relationship.

The two of them can't deny their attraction and feelings for one another, so just before the ship arrives in New York they make a deal. In six months' time, if they still want to be with each other and they can get themselves respectable careers, then they will meet at the top of the Empire State Building and get married.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and the two meditate on their feelings each day that they are apart. Nickie decides to actually do something with his life and becomes an artist. At the end of six months the two are both excited and anxious to meet one another just as they planned. Nickie arrives at the top of the Empire State Building first, so he waits. Terry is just a few blocks away, within sight of the building. In her excitement, she is looking up as she is running across the street and she gets hit by a car. She survives, but she is taken away for special treatment. Nickie is shown waiting at the top of the building, not knowing what is happening as sirens are heard from down below.

Some time later it is shown that Terry, now a teacher, is confined to a wheelchair. It is also revealed that she never contacted Nickie to tell him what happened because she didn't want him to see her as an invalid. At the beginning of the Christmas holidays later that year, Nickie and Terry both happen to attend the same ballet. Terry is still in her theater seat when he sees her, so he still has no knowledge of her condition. Bitter, believing she just stood him up that summer, he simply nods and says, "Hello," as he passes.

On Christmas Eve, Terry is at home by herself in her apartment when she gets a visitor. Nickie looked up her address and came to confront her about why she stood him up that day. He tries to bring up the subject, but she dodges all his questions, not wishing to talk about it. eventually he puts all of the clues together, and sees her wheelchair in her room, finally realizing that she never intended to leave him there. Completely apologetic, the two of them embrace and the movie ends on the positive note that as long as Nickie can paint and they can work on it together, then Terry can learn to walk again.

There are certainly sad parts to this movie, but it is also very heartwarming. There is a lot of wit and humor, and of course it is a romance with a happy ending.

To view the trailer, click this link:

An Affair to Remember trailer

If you are interested in giving this as a gift, or just in buying it for yourself, you can price/buy it if you click on this link:

Amazon: An Affair to Remember

Hope you enjoy this classic Christmas film.

Come back tomorrow for another post on a fun Christmas tradition.

And in the meantime, have A Very Vintage Christmas!

"The only people who grow old were born old to begin with."

And now, my second classic holiday pick.

A Very Vintage Christmas post #3.

(And it's 21 days til Christmas, in case you were wondering.)

The Bishop's Wife

1947

Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven

A bishop by the name of Henry Brougham (Niven) is involved in the controversial building of a new cathedral in his town.When times become hard, he prays that God would provide him with guidance. His prayer is answered in the form of an angel named Dudley (Grant), who reveals his true identity to Henry in order to gain Henry's trust and prove he is there to help.

Although Henry was wanting help specifically with the cathedral, Dudley isn't there to help get the building project done. He's there to offer guidance of a more personal nature, to Henry and those people who surround him, and have been feeling neglected because of Henry's obsession with the cathedral. People like Henry's wife, Julia (Young).

Dudley goes about trying to show Henry what is truly important in life, which he hasn't been paying attention to. He befreinds everybody in town, and everyone loves him. He uses his influence to get people in Henry's church to donate money to important causes, but not to help build the cathedral.Dudley helps save an older church in town, rather than focus his attention on building a new one. He even redecorates the Brougham's home for Christmas. Henry doesn't like Dudley to begin with, but when Dudley starts spending more and more time with Julia, who has been feeling neglected and sad, Henry becomes jealous and angry. He resolves to confront Dudley, so that he will leave. When he does, Dudley realizes that his job is done, and that Henry and Julia are still in love and back on track.He promises to leave and never return.

Once Dudley departs, he is erased from their memories, and Henry delivers a Christmas Eve sermon that he believes he wrote, but was really written for him by an angel.

I hope you guys will enjoy this movie.I think it's great.It's more serious than something like The Man Who Came to Dinner, but it still has a good deal of humor in it, and it's all about rediscovering what the true meaning of what Christmas is, and what the important things in life are.

View the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j063r4O33OE

And you can actually watch the whole movie here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLXrdeoenJ8

And you can price/buy it on Amazon or Turner Classic Movies.

Alright, so, according to the A Very Vintage Christmas schedule, I won't do another post til Thursday, but I think I have something extra up my sleeve that should be up on Tuesday.

So, stay tuned for that.

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