Dream Wife, 1953

Director: Sidney Sheldon (writer of I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Easter Parade)

Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon

Sorry, but besides Houseboat, this is the most ridiculous Cary Grant movie I have ever seen.

Clem (Cary Grant) just wants the perfect wife who will take care of him. So, he ditches his modern state department official fiancee Effie (Kerr), and tries for a princess. He wants to marry the Princess (of a fictional Middle-Eastern country), whose sole ambition in life has always been to marry and please her husband. Sounds great to Clem, but the problem is: she's a Princess and there are strange rules to follow as they begin courting. Plus, the US is trying to sign an agreement about oil with this fictional country, so that makes things extra complicated as the state department gets involved in Clem's love life.

"Ridiculous" would accurately describe this one.

An Affair to Remember, 1957

Director: Leo McCarey

Stars: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr

I love Cary Grant!

Nickie (Grant) and Terry (Kerr) meet on an ocean-liner, headed for New York. Both are engaged to other people, and both are traveling alone. Sounds like love to me!

They fall in love, and begin their "affair" (I think of affair more as an "extra-marital" thing, and marriage isn't involved here. Not that that makes it ok. I guess that conversation could go on forever. They were both cheating, anyway!) At the end of the voyage they agree that in 6 months, if nothing has changed, to meet on the top on the Empire State Building. But something prevents one of them from making it! Will it prevent them from spending the rest of their lives together? (That question is to get you to watch it, because you're in such suspense!)

The part where they go off and meet Nickie's Grandmother is my favorite! I don't know why I love it so much, but I would watch the film just for this part!

FACT: This was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair