Love Affair

[Available Feb. 14 via streaming on MUBI.] When sparks fly between a charming, flirtatious, engaged French artist (Charles Boyer), who has an heiress fiancée (Astrid Allwyn) and is close with his piano-playing grandmother (Maria Ouspenskaya), and a beautiful American nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), who has a boyfriend (Lee Bowman), while crossing the Atlantic on board a cruise ship on its way to New York in Leo McCarey's critically acclaimed, engaging, black-and-white, humorous, touching, well-written, heartbreaking, 89-minute, 1939 classic film highlighted by wonderful acting, chemistry, cinematography, and musical score, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building to determine whether they want to remain together, but the encounter does not go as expected.
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