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Fox Home Entertainment has announced a 50th Anniversary release of An Affair To Remember which stars Cary Grant, and Deborah Kerr. The two-disc special edition will be available to own from the 15th January, and should retail at around $19.98. The film will receive a new digital widescreen presentation, along with English Stereo track. Extras will include a commentary By Singer Marni Nixon & Film Historian Joseph McBride, multiple featurettes (Affairs to Remember: Deborah Kerr, Affairs to Remember: Cary Grant, Directed by Leo McCarey, A Producer to Remember: Jerry Wald, The Look of An Affair To Remember, and AMC Backstory: An Affair To Remember), a poster gallery, still gallery, Fox Movietonews: An Affair to Remember Shipboard Premiere Attracts Celebrities, the theatrical trailer, and more.

Lino wrote:I've never watched this one and frankly, I'm quite surprised that its appeal would be enough to warrant a SE like the one Fox will be giving us. Is this movie that popular? Or good, even?

A third characteristic, particularly of simple anamorphic add-on attachments to prime lenses, is "anamorphic mumps". For reasons of practical optics, the anamorphic squeeze is not uniform across the image field in any system, whether cylindrical, prismatic or mirror-based. This variation resulted in some areas of the film image appearing more stretched than others. In the case of an actor's face in the center of the screen their faces look somewhat like they had the mumps, hence the name for the phenomenon. Conversely, at the edges of the screen actors in full length view can become skinny-looking. In medium shots, if they walk across the screen from one side to the other, they increase in apparent girth. Early Cinemascope presentations in particular (using Chrétien's off-the-shelf lenses) suffered from it. The first company to produce an anti-mumps system was Panavision in the late 1950s.