It seems so many of the responses are hung up on Gary Cooper's age, forgetting that in his time (late silent era through to the late 1950s), Gary Cooper was widely regarded as one of the most attractive movie stars to grace the silver screen. To be sure, he was in ill health at the time of filming "Love in the Afternoon" and looked, indeed, older than 56 or 57. But he brought with him nearly 30 years' worth of outstanding leading man movie credits, and so it was the aura of his romantic film star reputation that he brought to his role as the devil-may-care American businessman playboy who is brought to heel by the naive charms of the ineffably beautiful Ms. Hepburn. Yes, it was clearly a role intended for Gary Grant (that would have to wait for "Charade"), but Cooper brings his own plain homespun American style to the role, which plays awfully well against Hepburn's dreamy child-woman European sophisticate-in-training. And "Love in the Afternoon" has simply one of the most romantic train station scenes ever filmed. When, at the last possible moment, Cooper scoops Hepburn up off the platform and Wilder shoots that close up of their kiss in the train's cabin, with Coop's big hand tenderly embracing Hepburn's stunning teary-eyed face -- well, folks, that's romantic film-making par excellence.