Cinema Shock!

I have been thinking for the past year or so that all those reboots that are coming out into theaters were something directors were doing recently.  I thought maybe they weren't earning a lot of money and they are running out of ideas.  But today, I was proven wrong (way wrong).  I've been saying how much I adore old black and white movies from the 30s and 40s lately.  There is just something so exquisite and classic about them.  Has anyone seen the movie An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr?  When I saw it, I liked it a lot.  I wasn't a huge fan of Deborah Kerr, but it was a good movie nonetheless.  Cary Grant has been one of my favorite actors lately, with his old Hollywood appeal and interesting characters.  It has gotten to the point where I have been wanting to see any movie that has him in it.  Did you know, though, that An Affair to Remember is a reboot???  I had received the movie Love Affair at the library, thinking it would star Humphrey Bogart (because I looked up all his movies on IMDB and I wanted to see that one) but I had gotten a different movie with the same name instead.  I was hesitant at first until I noticed that Irene Dunne was starring as the infamous Terry McKay.  Irene Dunne was a very talented actress during this time period.  Her role in Penny Serenade was very moving and she was quite funny in My Favorite Wife.  (What was funny was that Cary Grant starred in both of those alongside her)  The movie was almost exactly the same as An Affair to Remember, yet it was made way before that ever came out.  Even the little children singing in the ending had very striking resemblances to the children in the end of the Cary Grant version.  Irene Dunne was the better actress however.  She was definitely superior to Deborah Kerr.  It would have been an amazing movie if they had brought together Irene Dunne with Cary Grant.   In those two aforementioned movies, they really worked together.  I've noticed that with movies from that time period that a lot of actors worked with the same actresses in several movies.  I guess that still happens today too.  It just goes to show, that cinema really hasn't changed that much.  

Don't they look similar?  It's because they are! (Ok maybe they don't look familiar from the pictures, but it's really hard to find similar stills.)