---
title: 'Love Affair (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Leo McCarey'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 89
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/love-affair-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031593/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Love Affair (1939)

1939 · 89 min · Drama, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Love Affair is a 1939 American romance film, co-starring Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, and Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram. The film follows a French playboy and an American former nightclub singer who fall in love aboard an ocean liner. Controversial on concept, the official screenplay was re-tooled and rewritten to appease Hollywood censorship and relied on actor input and improvisation, causing long delays and budget extensions.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Leo McCarey](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mccarey)
- **Screenplay:** [Leo McCarey](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mccarey), [Delmer Daves](https://cinepixo.com/people/delmer-daves), [Donald Ogden Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-ogden-stewart), [Mildred Cram](https://cinepixo.com/people/mildred-cram)
- **Producer:** [Leo McCarey](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mccarey)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-webb)
- **Director of Photography:** [Rudolph Maté](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolph-mate)
- **Editor:** [Edward Dmytryk](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-dmytryk)

## Cast

- [Joan Leslie](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-leslie)
- [Tom Dugan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-dugan-2)
- [Fred Malatesta](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-malatesta)
- [Carol Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-hughes)
- [Astrid Allwyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/astrid-allwyn)
- [Scotty Beckett](https://cinepixo.com/people/scotty-beckett)
- [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller)
- [Maria Ouspenskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-ouspenskaya)
- [Bert Moorhouse](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-moorhouse)
- [Oscar O'Shea](https://cinepixo.com/people/oscar-o-shea)
- [Lee Bowman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-bowman)
- [Maurice Moscovitch](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-moscovitch)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)
- [Dell Henderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/dell-henderson)
- [Charles Boyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-boyer)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/love-affair-1939
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