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  • Ali MacGraw And Ryan O’Neal Reminisce Over ‘Love Story’ Days At Harvard

    Lead stars of the ‘70s classic movie Love Story Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal reunited at Harvard University where their characters met more than 45 years ago.

    MacGraw and O’Neal reminisced about the old times as they sat for an interview with journalist and moderator Alicia Anstead. Love Story got seven Academy nominations and won one for original score.

    During their campus visit, the two shared their Love Story experience and the life they lead after doing the film. Love Story earned $106 million at the box office on its original theatrical release which is equivalent to $650 million in 2016. However, the stars joked they did not get paid much.

    Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal Played College Lovers in the 1970 film ‘Love Story’

    MacGraw revealed she only got $20,000 but said it was a lot of money during those times as she was not popular when they made the classic film. O’Neal even joked his talent fee was not enough to cover his alimony payments.

    After more than four decades, Ali MacGraw, 76, and Ryan O’Neal, 74, will be working together again as the lead stars of the touring production of the play, Love Letters. The story chronicles the lives of two friends who keep in touch through mail.

    “I think it’ll be interesting to see Ali and I together again,” O’Neal says in a promotional video for the play which was written by A.R. Gurney. “I think that’s certainly interesting to me. It’s a very well-written story, and I think they will be moved.”

    MacGraw believes the on-screen chemistry she shared with her co-star more than 40 years ago will still work in the play. “I can’t imagine doing this with anyone else,” the actress said. “We have 40-some-odd years of history.”

    In the promo clip for the tour, Ali MacGraw recalled her Love Story days: “Every single minute was fun and caring, and that doesn’t happen a lot.”

  • Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, the Stars of the Iconic ’70s Film ‘Love Story’ Swap Stories At Harvard University

    Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal who proved that “love means never having to say you’re sorry” swapped stories at the university that served as the setting for their iconic film, Love Story.

    According to Page Six, one revelation shared was just how little MacGraw was paid — $20,000 — for playing Jenny.

    The actress shared this while reminiscing with O’Neal about the movie at Harvard University on Monday.

    MacGraw said she didn’t complain because the pay was a “lot of money” for her in those days. O’Neal joked that his salary didn’t even cover his alimony payments to Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he divorced in 1973.

    The film chronicles the love story of a rich boy and a girl from the other side of the tracks, from their collegiate days at Harvard University to her tragic death to cancer at the age of 25. The film made grown men weep.

    MacGraw and O’Neal visited Harvard some 45 years after the film was released and spoke with students about their memories of their time on campus filming the classic movie.

    MacGraw said being at Harvard brought back fond memories that few of her subsequent experiences in film ever matched.

    “It was a wonderful, wonderful adventure that was followed by some pretty dramatic stuff in my private life,” she noted,

    MacGraw, who dealt with addiction for years, walked away from acting in the years after her breakout role in Love Story, which was a huge box office success that received seven Academy Award nominations.

    O’Neal shared that cancer has played a big part in his life – as it had for his character in the movie. He recently battled leukaemia, but the disease is now in remission.

    He also alluded to the death of his long-time companion, actress Farrah Fawcett, who died of cancer in 2009.

  • Kendall Jenner: Likeness to ‘Love Story’s’ Ali McGraw Uncanny

    Kendall Jenner looks a lot like Love Story star Ali McGraw. If you never noticed this before, you’ll immediately note the similarities when you take a peak at their photos side-by-side. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star bears a striking resemblance to the actress from the 1970s film.

    Even though Kendall acknowledges she does, in fact, have a doppelganger, she has yet to watch Love Story from start to finish. Mom Kris Jenner encouraged her to watch the film, but failed.

    “My mom would hear from her friends that they thought I looked like her,” Kendall Jenner says in a recent interview with People magazine. “She made me watch Love Story, but I fell asleep halfway through.”

    Even though she still hasn’t seen Love Story in its entirety, Kendall appreciates it when people recognize their physical similarities.


    “She’s beautiful, she’s an icon, so it’s really awesome to hear,” she says.

    In other Kendall Jenner news, she recently broke sister and brother-in-law–Kanye and Kim Kardashian West’s–record on Instagram. She currently holds the records for the most ‘likes’ on an Instagram photo. Kendall’s shot from about a month ago, featuring her on the ground in a sheer white gown, has racked up almost two and a half million ‘likes.’ It beat out Kim and Kanye’s wedding photos that, until Kendall Jenner’s photo was posted, held the record.

    Surely Kendall Jenner has lots going on in her life. At just 19 she has a very successful fashion modeling career, stars on her family’s reality show, looks just like Ali McGraw, and now she holds an Instagram record.

    Could life get any better for a teenager? Oh, probably.

    It’s quite likely with Kendall Jenner that the best is yet to come.

  • Ali MacGraw And Ryan O’Neal Celebrate “Love Story”

    Oliver and Jenny fought against all odds, a boy and girl from completely different backgrounds. He was the handsome, rich, lighthearted, waspy jock. She was the ethnic, blue-collar, straight-laced academic. However, they overcame their differences, and they fell madly in love.

    Then tragedy struck, and young Jenny became afflicted with a fatal illness.

    On paper it sounds horribly depressing. And although Love Story is the ultimate tearjerker, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal’s chemistry somehow made it okay to sob uncontrollably at the movies.

    The old friends, now both in the 70s, recently got together to celebrate the acclaimed film. O’Neal admits to having a crush on MacGraw while filming the movie. However, she was married to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Studios, at the time of production.

    The pair sat for a candid interview with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss one of Hollywood’s most iconic films.

    When asked about the opening weekend of Love Story, which became a huge box office success, MacGraw replied, “And just what you think happened, happened. It was an instant hit all over the world. I remember at the premiere, more interesting than watching the movie was listening to the audience blowing their noses and crying. Men and women. It was shocking! It was at the Loews theater on Broadway in New York, it was snowing. It was pretty magical, with everybody sniveling away.”

    And exactly how do the actors truly feel about the most celebrated line in the film, you know the one about love meaning that you never have to say that you’re sorry? Both O’Neal and MacGraw don’t think that’s a good way to go about a relationship.

    O’Neal stated, “That, of course, is the most famous line from that film, which, in hindsight, is maybe not the best relationship advice.” MacGraw agreed, “It’s a crock!”

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