An Affair to Remember

Nickie Ferrante (Grant), a well-known playboy and dilettante in the arts, meets Terry McKay (Kerr) aboard the SS Constitution. After a series of chance meetings they establish a friendship and gradually fall in love despite each being engaged to other people. After a brief stop off at Ferrante's grandmother's villa followed by a return trip to New York, and much troubled with guilt about their liaison, they agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months' time if they have succeeded in ending their relationships and starting new careers.

On the day of their rendezvous, Terry, in her haste to reach the Empire State Building is struck down by a car. Gravely injured, she is rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile Nickie, waiting for her at the top, is unaware of the accident and after many hours, finally concedes at midnight that she will not arrive, believing she has rejected him.

After the accident the wheelchair bound Terry refuses to contact Nickie, wanting to conceal her disability. Instead she finds work as a music teacher. A year after the accident, she sees Nickie with his former girlfriend at the ballet, which she herself is attending with her former lover. Nickie does not notice her condition because she is seated and only says hello as he passes her.

Nickie makes a surprise visit to Terry. Though he angrily tries to make her explain her actions, Terry merely dodges the subject, never leaving the couch on which she sits. As he is leaving, Nickie mentions a painting he had done of her that had recently been sold to a woman in a wheelchair. He pauses suddenly, realising the position Terry is in, and walks over to her bedroom as he continues the story; upon seeing his painting hung on the bedroom wall, Nickie's suspicions are confirmed.

In the final scene, the pair reconcile, and all is revealed about the fateful day they were supposed to meet.