Gone with the Wind (1939)
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable
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Poll: AFI's Marital Passions
The thrill of many romances is to see how hard the two protagonists must work to earn their love, but there are particular cases where we see them working as hard to keep it.
In the former case, the finality of the film (granted it's a happy ending) is that the two will spend their life together, which generally means marriage but in the latter case, marriage isn't the end but rather the starting point of the thrills (aka troubles) or at least the mid-point.
The following movies have two things in common: they were all listed in the AFI's Top 100 Greatest American Romances and they feature a married couple for the most part of the film, if not the totality.
Which of these AFI's marital romances is your personal favorite?
After voting, you might discuss the list here
Make Your Choice
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Donna Reed and James Stewart -
On Golden Pond (1981)
Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda -
A Star Is Born (1954)
Judy Garland and James Mason -
Woman of the Year (1942)
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -
Love Story (1970)
Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal -
Funny Girl (1968)
Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif -
The Way We Were (1973)
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford -
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -
Reds (1981)
Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty -
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (also Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier) -
The Quiet Man (1952)
Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne -
The Awful Truth (1937)
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant -
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Renée Zellweger and Tom Cruise
