Ali MacGraw in “Love Story”

Hi, Bav.

yes

It was the catch phrase of the year, and there wasn’t a dry seat in the house when she uttered it, so yes.👍

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My sister admired the character as a pushy feminist icon while also taking up ironing her hair to appear more like Ali/Jenny Cavilleri.

The role was going to get a nomination no matter who played it. Well, maybe not Vera Hruba Ralston.

She. Can’t. Act.

There’s a reason she was nicknamed Ali McGrawful.

[quote] It was the catch phrase of the year, and there wasn’t a dry seat in the house when she uttered it, so yes.👍

Audience was pissing their pants at her attempts at acting.

No- never- her acting is more or less saying " Preppy" and " Oliver" in different tones. She is like the girl in high school who got the lead because she was pretty and popular. No one is ever going to watch " Love Story" and think Oscar and Ali.

I've only seen her act once, in the criminally underrated "Just Tell Me What You Want." That was ten years after "Love Story," in which, as Pauline Kael said, she acts with her nostrils.

I've watched it for the first time earlier this year while flipping channels on a relative's television.

I thought it was well acted & thought Ali should've received a nomination & an award for it back then.

I haven't seen her in anything else but her acting in that role was ahead of the times. The film had beautiful shots & I can see why folks have a love for it & not just for the popular theme.

It's a better movie than most of what I've had to watch in the past 25 years.

Back in the 80s, I heard kids talking about the ending in school so I wasn't interested in watching a film where I knew the ending plus it was a "chick flick" which was all hetero.

Yes, she deserved it. Bitchy and cold? Well, that was the character, so...

I agree with r11. I was shocked that she actually was good in it. She's terrible in everything else.

Use google you ignorant tard

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She was absolutely stunning. You can't take that away from her.

Beautiful. Terrible acting.

Absolutely terrible in Dynasty. An embarrassment to our noble profession.

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Kevin Sessums and Ali McGraw scrubbed the bathtub with toothbrushes while discussing quantum physics.

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4 out of 5 Hollywood leading men agree she was a fine piece of tasty ass.

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I tested for the role of Jenny, but the casting department could stop laughing at the idea of Ryan O'Neal being attracted to me.

I offered to receive her Oscar if she won that year.

There wasn't a dry seat in the house?

Greg, a sentient cloud shaped like a poodle, Kevin Sessums, a time-traveling librarian, and Ali McGraw, a world-renowned expert on underwater basket weaving, argued over the best flavor of imaginary ice cream.

Ali McGraw, armed with a lasso made of stardust, attempted to capture Greg and turn him into a fluffy pillow, while Kevin Sessums acted as referee and commentator.

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Greg, disguised as a human, infiltrated a high-stakes poker game, with Kevin Sessums acting as his poker face coach.

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Greg, Kevin Sessums, and Ali McGraw embarked on a quest to find the legendary Fountain of Youth, hoping to discover if clouds could achieve eternal youth.

A talking horse, convinced Greg was a giant cotton candy cloud, tried to eat him. Ali McGraw, ever the animal lover, rescued Greg with a well-aimed water balloon, while Kevin Sessums provided dramatic narration.

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She deserved some kind of award for being smoking hot in Convoy.

[quote]No one is ever going to watch " Love Story" and think Oscar and Ali.

No one is ever going to watch "Love Story".

There, fixed it for ya.

The only reason anyone ever even heard of that piece of shit was that Robert Evans must have thrown the biggest marketing budget in history at it to promote his GF. It was EVERYWHERE.

Nobody could like in a bed and look grey like her.

Ali is actually good in her first movie - Brenda in Goodbye Columbus (1969) - probably because she was playing close to herself. After that it was all downhill. It's not often an actor gets worse after their debut.

[quote]the criminally underrated "Just Tell Me What You Want."

HAAA! I wanted to like that movie soooo badly (saw it in the theater in 1980), but whatever quality it could have had was ruined by Ali. She looked terrific, but sucked the life out of the film.

Sure. She was very charming.

Was she in the movie?

One of those movies only worth seeing so you can better appreciate the Carol Burnett parody of it.

Or the MAD Magazine parody. "$%^&#!" 😆

She was a beautiful rising star in the biggest film of the year, and one of the most iconic films of the 1970s. She’s by no means a great acting talent, but these kinds of nominations happen regularly, and I don’t begrudge her for it.

She was probably closer to winning the award than to not being nominated. Glenda Jackson is wonderful in ‘Women in Love,’ but she was relatively unknown in the States, shared her screen time with three other leads, and the film and performance are somewhat daring considering what Oscar voters tend to celebrate in the Best Actress category. I wager MacGraw would have stood an even better chance with the current Academy, given their preference for It Girl winners.

Wasn't she married to Robert Evans, who was a major studio executive at the time (Paramount?) - ? That would certainly be in her favor for a nomination back then.

The film is an overwrought romantic melodrama with a plot as thin as air, and it inspired a dismally bad novel that is almost down there with Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey. Also, it made stars of two of the most ineffectual, inexpressive and talentless actors in history. Ryan O'Neal oscillated between detached aloofness, self-assured cockiness and atrocious overacting, but the only difference between Ali MacGraw and a piece of wood, is that the piece of wood can evoke some emotion. Sadly for her, she never could.

The only passable thing to come out of that film is its soundtrack, which contains Francis Lai's lovely main theme, as well as some beautiful classical pieces. Everything else is pure dreck wrapped in pretensions of social commentary and pseudo-feminism.

[quote]The film is an overwrought romantic melodrama with a plot as thin as air, and it inspired a dismally bad novel that is almost down there with Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey

Wrong, r58. The book was first and was huge. The movie was going to be big no matter who they had cast.

She was great in Goodbye Columbus and Love Story, so her status was gold at the time. Running off with McQueen later didn't help her.

She was gorgeous in The Getaway with Steve McQueen. Their chemistry was hot. Ali left producer Robert Evans shortly after that movie.

Actually R59, no. Erich Segal presented the script to Paramount in late 1968, and they asked him to novelize it as part of the film's promotion. They released the book for Valentine's Day in 1970, by which time the movie was already in post-production (filming had started in November, 1969 and wrapped in February 3rd, 1970). Paramount paid millions to artificially create a frenzy of expectation among the public, so that the film would be a huge hit when it was finally released in December, 1970. It was all cynically calculated, but the publicity campaign was planned and delivered with military precision to deliver a positive outcome.

[quote]Actually [R59], no. Erich Segal presented the script to Paramount in late 1968, and they asked him to novelize it as part of the film's promotion.

I know that r62, but the book was still released *first* and was responsible in no small way to the film's success.

Apart from the fact that she couldn't act, didn't act, and never could act, of course she deserved a nomination.

She was married to Robert Evans, she gave it up when she needed to (sexaholic), and she was a drunk.

Qualifications non pareil.

Whoever played Jenny was going to get a nomination, r64.

Ryan was wonderful in Love Story, R58. He excelled at those kind of characters, he had exactly what Redford could never in a million years sum up for The Great Gatsby.

[quote]She was a beautiful rising star in the biggest film of the year, and one of the most iconic films of the 1970s.

Oh please. It was all anyone talked about in the year of its release, but one or two years went by and nobody ever mentioned it again. I've never seen a frame of it on a nostalgia show or a movie clips show. It was a Lifetime Movie that got a lot of PR because of Robert Evans.

If not for the best selling book, Love Story would have been a throwaway quick release quick departure.

In a word, no.