Cary Grant (Photo credit: twm1340)
I just walked into my apartment after having dinner with a dear friend who told me all about her wonderfully romantic vacation. My husband had left the TV on in the den and of course it was tuned to ONE OF THE ONLY TWO stations he watches – TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
And what did I see? OMG I had the good fortune to walk in on the last scene of An Affair to Remember!!!! OMG (again) that scene just rips your heart out and then puts it back in its appropriate place…
Cary Grant was beyond gorgeous in this movie. Perfectly groomed, hair with a part as straight as I-95, impeccably dressed in his own clothes always sporting French cuffs and there he is pacing nervously around Deborah Kerr‘s living room. She is posed and poised on the couch dressed in red (after all it is Christmas) and a red coverlet covers her lower body. Well I’m crying as soon as he starts carrying on about how he never went to the Empire State Building and she plays it so cool yet conveying through some facial expressions the tumult of emotions at play in her mind and heart.
Tears are dropping down my cheeks and I know that the crescendo of this emotional scene has yet to unfold but it definitely on its way. The shawl, the confession of waiting and waiting, the deep looks exchanged between the two former lovers….He moves to the door and in true Hollywood pull-at-your-heartstrings style, he stops and turns for one last look.
And then slowly in perfect timing, he explains to Terry why he didn’t take money for the painting…I’m bawling now, sobbing at each passing moment. The climax is heartfelt and Nickie’s face is a road map of discovery, pain, realization and heartbreak.
What movies make you cry? I have some more, but I think An Affair to Remember is my all-time-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry movie. Would love to hear from some of my readers which movies cause their eyes to fill up!
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Lori, you first told me about this movie when I was married to Brent. I think I first saw this movie in 1975. I cried and cried; the hopeful romantic that I am!!! I cry at too many movies to list a few!!! Cinema Paradiso, It’s a Wonderful Life, Tangled, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Fanny, Romeo and Juliette (Olivia Hussey), St. Ralph,Penny Serenade, Dumbo, The Yearling, Old Yeller, Great Expectations (Gwyneth Paltrow/Ethan Hawke), Sliding Doors, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, etc……….
Yes you certainly named a lot tear-jerkers! Of course Gone With The Wind and It’s A Wonderful Life! Thanks for commenting, I love it.
When I was younger, “Back Street” with Susan Hayworth, but the last time I saw it, I remained unmoved! When the kids were growing up, “Homeward Bound” and that damned Golden Retriever! Last night I teared up with “Fried Green Tomatoes.” How the mighty have fallen.
Peter and I cry at just about anything these days and I know that’s a sign of old age creeping up on us ;((
Lori and Peter,
Of course An Affair to Remember, Random Harvest is one of my others and It’s A Wonderful Life, and The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart and Little Women for a few. Crying is therapeutic, and it means you are not afraid to feel!!!
Who can forget “Ghost”, “The Notebook”, “A Patch of Blue”, “West Side Story?’