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The Improbably Romantic Hollywood History of the Movie Meet-Cute

PUTTING THE ROM IN ROM-COM

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.”

Esther Zuckerman
Esther Zuckerman
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938).
Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies
Esther Zuckerman

Esther Zuckerman

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