September Affair
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Fritz Rotter Robert Thoeren Andrew Solt |
| Starring |
Joan Fontaine Joseph Cotten Jessica Tandy Jimmy Lydon Robert Arthur |
| Music by |
Victor Young Kurt Weill Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Cinematography |
Charles B. Lang Victor Milner |
| Edited by | Warren Low |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
English Italian |
| Box office | $1,425,000 (US rentals) |
September Affair is a 1950 film, directed by William Dieterle, starring Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten and Jessica Tandy. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis.
Marianne "Manina" Stuart (Joan Fontaine), a prominent concert pianist, meets David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten), a businessman, on a flight from Rome to New York. Their plane is diverted to Naples for engine repairs, and they decide to kill time by doing some sight-seeing.
At lunch, a recording of the Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson song "September Song", sung by Walter Huston, is playing. Manina is single, and David is unhappily married with a son in his late teens. They talk too long and miss their flight, and decide to stay on for a few days, getting to know each other. They quickly fall in love.
Then they hear that the plane they were scheduled to catch has crashed into the ocean, and all on board are presumed dead. Due to a clerical mixup, they were believed to have been among those aboard. A list of the victims is published in a newspaper they pick up. Thinking their absences won't make any difference to the larger world, they decide to "stay dead" and begin a new life together in Florence. They make no contact with their families or friends, including Lawrence's wife Catherine (Jessica Tandy) and son David Jr (Robert Arthur).
Manina had been originally intending to play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in New York, and she keeps up her practice during the secret affair. She also has contact with piano teacher Maria Salvatini (Françoise Rosay), who agrees not to reveal Manina is very much alive, but continues to tutor her.
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