How did we all come to crave the adorably happenstance way characters meet in the movies? Here’s an excerpt from the new book “Falling in Love at the Movies.”
If you know one thing about the rom-com, you know about the “meet-cute”—the adorably happenstance way in which the two lovers in one of these movies first encounter one another. The meet-cute has been around as long as love stories themselves, but over the years it’s evolved from a term used by screenwriters and studio executives into something everyone with a passing interest in rom-coms is aware of.), is driving in Los Angeles when she encounters an elderly man confused on the road.
Wallach’s character, it turns out, is a screenwriter who becomes Iris’s confidant as she navigates her own romantic entanglement. And the scenario he describes is the one from Ernst Lubitsch’s’s business tycoon Michael Brandon shopping at a store on the French Riviera. Despite being a multimillionaire, he’s cheap and only wants a pajama top to sleep in. The salespeople are baffled and refuse to sell him just one part of the set. Then, Claudette Colbert’s Nicole arrives.
Where did the term come from anyway? The columnist Jack Smith considered himself one of the foremost researchers of the subject. In a 1983 column in the, he wrote: “When the definitive history of Hollywood and the movies is written, the ‘cute meet’ or ‘meet cute’ may receive only a footnote, but if my research is quoted in that footnote, I will treasure it as my claim to immortality.
Smith quotes the actor Tommy Vize, who claims the term was invented by the legendary agent Swifty Lazar, which made its way into George Axelrod’s play and movie, whom some other sources credit with the invention of the verbiage for “meet-cute.” Loos said: “A cute meet is when Claudette Colbert is in an elevator and drops her purse and a monkey wrench falls out of it and hits Fred Mac-Murray on the foot.
The purest meet-cutes are the ones that thrive on improbability, and it helps if they have a hefty dose of sexual spark., Cary Grant’s paleontologist David Huxley first encounters Katharine Hepburn’s heiress Susan Vance on the golf course. She steals his ball and he is unperturbed by it. They encounter each other yet again at a fancy restaurant. He slips on an olive she was trying to pop in her mouth.
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