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Deborah Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed her in The King and I the previous year.
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Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant improvised many of their scenes throughout filming, and a number of lines that made it to the final cut of the film came from the actors' improvisation.
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References to this movie in Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle, revitalized interest in the film, and led to 2 million additional sales of the 1957 classic on VHS.
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Ingrid Bergman was the first choice to play Terry McKay. Doris Day was also considered before Deborah Kerr was cast.
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Nickie and Terry make their conditional promise to meet in six months at exactly the halfway point of the film (59-1/2 minutes into the 119-minute movie).
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Deborah Kerr plays Terry McKay, previously played by Irene Dunne in Love Affair, of which this film is a remake. Both were directed by Leo McCarey. The year before this film was made, Kerr played Anna Leonowens in The King and I, also a role that had previously been played by Irene Dunne in the black-and-white classic Anna and the King of Siam. "The King and I" is a musical based on the same book.
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A Bollywood film with the title Mann starring Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala was inspired by this movie.
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After the confrontation with the photographer on the ship's deck, Deborah Kerr turns to Cary Grant and says, "So, I go my way [traces a straight path by her hand] and you go yours [traces a twisty path with the wave of her hand]." The same exchange takes place between Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in The Awful Truth, where she says, "As we go down the life's highway, you go in your way [traces a twisty path with the wave of her hand] and I go in my way [traces a straight path]."
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Second of three movies that paired Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.
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In the "50th anniversary" DVD release, one of the bonus features is a Movietone News piece about the shipboard premiere of the movie aboard the S.S. Constitution, identified in the newsreel as the location for filming.
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In Love Affair, the film of which this is a remake, Nicky's grandmother was played by veteran character actress Maria Ouspenskaya, who received an academy award nomination (her second) for this role.
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Was voted the #5 greatest romance of all time by the American Film Institute. This is the highest voted film in which the two lovers end up together in the end.
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