History Film / LoveAffair

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--> '''Agent''': I sold one! The woman! I got $100 for her!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** On the ship, the {{love letter}} Michel is reading falls into Terry's room. When he asks for it back, Terry plays coy and asks him to prove it by telling him what it's about. Through averting eye contact, Michel shyly replies that the message is thanking him "for a beautiful night, and you." Terry lightly teases him, hands him the letter and disappears from the porthole ... and then reappears to quip "Do you think it'll take the place of baseball?"
** In order for the movie to be approved by UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, the affair had to have a redemption arc. Michel already had one through Terry, but Terry needed one herself. Becoming paralyzed got the approval.
** It's heavily implied that Terry used to have a history similar to Michel's. In their first meeting, upon realizing she's face to face with the famous French playboy, her teasing about his romantic night with a past lover hints she's either had better nights than that, or can relate. At one point, Michel suggests she's [[SlutShaming familiar with his simpering routines]], to which she replies she can be nasty about him too.

** It's heavily implied that Terry used to have a history similar to Michel's. In their first meeting, upon realizing she's face to face with the famous French playboy, her teasing about his romantic night with a past lover hints she's had better nights than that. At one point, Michel suggests she's [[SlutShaming familiar with his routines]], to which she replies she can be nasty about him too.

** It's heavily implied that Terry used to have a history similar to Michel's. In their first meeting, upon realizing she's face to face with the famous French playboy, her teasing about his romantic night with a past lover hints she's had better nights than that.

** On the ship, the {{love letter}} (from a former rendezvous lover, who turns out to be one of his fiancee's relatives!) that Michel is reading falls into Terry's room. When he asks for it back, Terry plays coy and asks him to prove it by telling him what it's about. Through averting eye contact, Michel shyly replies that the lover is thanking him "for a beautiful night, and you." Terry lightly teases him, hands him the letter and disappears from the porthole ... and then reappears to quip "Do you think it'll take the place of baseball?"

** Michel. For a MillionairePlayboy who admitted he's [[AFamilyAffair cheated on his fiancee with one of her relatives]] and ReallyGetsAround enough to be considered breaking news on the radio, he is sincere, selfless, kind and a gentleman, making it obvious why he's a ChickMagnet.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: On the ship, the letter (from a former rendezvous lover) that Michel is reading falls into Terry's room. When he asks for it back, Terry plays coy and asks him to prove it by telling him what it's about. Through averting eye contact, Michel shyly replies that the lover is thanking him "for a beautiful night, and you." Terry hands him the letter and disappears from the porthole ... and then reappears to quip "Do you think it'll take the place of baseball?"

* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Michel, who has never held a real job, can't sell his paintings in America so he has to paint billboards while saving up money to marry Terry. Eventually he does get his art career going.

''Love Affair'' is a 1939 romantic drama film directed by Creator/LeoMcCarey with a screenplay by Creator/DelmerDaves, starring Creator/IreneDunne and Charles Boyer.

''Love Affair'' is a 1939 romantic drama film directed by Creator/LeoMcCarey with a screenplay by Creator/DelmerDaves, starring Creator/IreneDunne and Charles Boyer. Boyer is Michel Marnet, a painter who is better known as a notorious playboy. Marnet boards a ship bound for America, where he will meet his fiancee. While on board he meets Terry [=McKay=], a former nightclub singer who is also going home to meet her fiance Ken, who owns a department store. They initially try to avoid each other out of fear of gossip, but eventually they fall in love. They agree to leave their respective partners and marry. Michel, who needs to get a real job, suggests they rendezvous atop the Empire State Building in six months. He starts selling paintings, she goes back to work as a singer, and six months later they arrive for their Empire State Building rendezvous--but Terry is hit by a car as she crosses the street in front of the building. She is left with crippled legs, bound to a wheelchair. Michel thinks that she ditched him, and doesn't even know where to contact her in America to find out what happened. So he goes on broken-hearted, while she decides not to contact him and elicit his pity. But fate will bring them together again.

''Love Affair'' is a 1939 romantic drama film directed by Creator/LeoMcCarey, starring Creator/IreneDunne and Charles Boyer. Boyer is Michel Marnet, a painter who is better known as a notorious playboy. Marnet boards a ship bound for America, where he will meet his fiancee. While on board he meets Terry [=McKay=], a former nightclub singer who is also going home to meet her fiance Ken, who owns a department store. They initially try to avoid each other out of fear of gossip, but eventually they fall in love. They agree to leave their respective partners and marry. Michel, who needs to get a real job, suggests they rendezvous atop the Empire State Building in six months. He starts selling paintings, she goes back to work as a singer, and six months later they arrive for their Empire State Building rendezvous--but Terry is hit by a car as she crosses the street in front of the building. She is left with crippled legs, bound to a wheelchair. Michel thinks that she ditched him, and doesn't even know where to contact her in America to find out what happened. So he goes on broken-hearted, while she decides not to contact him and elicit his pity. But fate will bring them together again.

''Love Affair'' is a 1939 romantic drama film directed by Leo [=McCarey=], starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Boyer is Michel Marnet, a painter who is better known as a notorious playboy. Marnet boards a ship bound for America, where he will meet his fiancee. While on board he meets Terry [=McKay=], a former nightclub singer who is also going home to meet her fiance Ken, who owns a department store. They initially try to avoid each other out of fear of gossip, but eventually they fall in love. They agree to leave their respective partners and marry. Michel, who needs to get a real job, suggests they rendezvous atop the Empire State Building in six months. He starts selling paintings, she goes back to work as a singer, and six months later they arrive for their Empire State Building rendezvous--but Terry is hit by a car as she crosses the street in front of the building. She is left with crippled legs, bound to a wheelchair. Michel thinks that she ditched him, and doesn't even know where to contact her in America to find out what happened. So he goes on broken-hearted, while she decides not to contact him and elicit his pity. But fate will bring them together again.

* ChickFlick: Romance, tragedy, fancy mink coats, yep.