Though some would call it sappy by today’s standards, in the early 1970s both book and film were perfectly timed, and they permeated popular culture through and through. This story, however – rising first as a best-selling novel – became commercial gold. There, in the undergraduate idyll, these two beautiful people, full of promise and intelligence, fall in love and begin their storybook life together – or so it seems. But alas, the fates intercede in this too perfect union, providing a tragic and unhappy ending. Indeed, there are plenty of Kleenex moments in this film as the likeable and quick-witted Jenny is stricken with an unnamed cancer, eventually succumbing to the disease in a heart-wrenching hospital scene one cold winter’s night. Jenny Cavilleri, the bright and sassy working-class Italian kid from Providence, Rhode Island who goes off to Radcliffe and finds her rich Harvard Hunk. At the time, these two were the “easy-on-the-eye” film stars du jour the star couple in Hollywood’s Love Story, a film that swept the nation off its feet in 1970-71. Ali MacGraw stole the hearts of millions as Ms. Shown at right is a 1970 photo of actors Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. Actors Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw in 1970 studio photo: Harvard ice-hockey star & hot head meets wise-cracking Radcliffe beauty in popular novel and Hollywood film, “Love Story”.
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