Well, I think since the original film, which featured Dwight and Moira as lovers, has been out 50+ years and the remake also did it, in the minds of most fans it has pretty much become 'canon' anyway.
In the Peck/Gardner version, I thought the romance angle was handled very non-sensationally. There weren't exensive make-out scenes, and Gardner appeared in a bikini for only a few minutes. So they didn't revamp the whole storyline to turn it into a steamy sexy soap opera.
The contrast of how the strait-laced, highly moral and disciplined Dwight and the middle-aged, boozy, kind of washed-out Moira faced the issue of impending doom was actually a very good subplot.
In the end, Moira realizes why Dwight wanted to be faithful to his wife and dead family, and understood that was one of the biggest reasons she had fallen in love with him.
And Dwight understood that whatever he did with Moira in the final days and weeks would not undo what he had with his wife.
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
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