Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal on making "Love Story"
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2021
- Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz interviews the stars of the classic tearjerker, "Love Story," to talk about the making of an unlikely box office blockbuster, and asks: What does "Love means never having to say you're sorry" really mean?
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50 years on, Ali MacGraw is still gorgeous.
Classy lady
Meanwhile, Ryan O'Neal is definitely showing his age.
Youre right.
@@brianforbes8325 They both LOOK their age, but isn't that what makes Ali in particular that much more stunning; that she never went under that knife...?
@@SisterFromAnotherPlanet and that’s why O’Neal looks older than she. Her wrinkles are just beautiful. They show she has lived and had a meaningful life.
I still remember sitting in the movie theatre and sobbing - along with a lot of other teenage girls in the audience. There is something about the music, film locations, and cast that really worked. Timeless story.
I was doing the same lol. It was a real tear jerker. Loved it. Still do
I was a rug rat when this was released. But, I remember being in a showing of Titanic. At the end of the movie there was a young teen girl behind me just gasping and sobbing.
I turned to my future husband and asked if he thaight she was going be ok. I felt so bad for her. My Husband told not worry because a least some one was getting their money’s worth. 😁
Me too...was 14, and my friends and I, after eagerly anticipating the release of the movie after "devouring" the paperback novel, sat in the movie theater next to grown men, as we all sobbed at its conclusion. We then ran off to buy the soundtrack album, which I still own today. Sad that by today's "climate" and standards, the movie seems trite, dated and quite boring. But, back then, much like "The Exorcist" a few years later, it was a phenomenon like no one had seen before. The perfect recipe for young teen girls and their hormone-driven, romantantic-fantasy-driven psyches. And Ali McGraw was the epitome of hippie beautiful cool to all of us back then, as we all tried to copy her look, with most of us failing miserably. So happy that these two actors have remained so close over the years and hold such fondness for each other, as they will always be remembered as one of movie history's most famous, romantic partners.
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@@mananimal3644 😂 LOL !!!
Same with Romeo and Juliet the original..whew..
I have lived this story in my life, boy meets girl, they fall madly in love, girl dies. I held her hand as she took her last breath. 17 years later I'm still as in love with her as I was when she was alive. I'm still as devastated by her death too. She died of brain cancer which is why I use a gray ribbon as my icon.
@Kenzi Blue Thank you for your kindness.
So sorry for your devastating loss...Sounds like you have true, infinite Love 🌹
@@BarrySmithviolin Thank you for your kind words.
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 🌹
I'm so sorry for your loss. Every night before I fall asleep I say goodnight to all the ones I love that have passed. I say at the end, " We will be together again in a better place and time where bad things don't happen ". I know as much as you say you loved her and still carry that love within you, that you will be together again.
my gosh but Ali MacGraw is still stunningly beautiful!!!!!
Ali has aged like a fine wine the silver looks stunning on her!
She was a real beauty.
Ali MacGraw what can you say other than the fact she still beautiful in every way😊
Don,
I thought the same thing when I saw her. What a beautiful class act. Love her.
And he was gorgeous too! 😍
She is stunning.
shes a good actress.
She made some dumb choices, namely leaving her husband for Steve McQueen. But otherwise, I assume she is a talented, nice person.
I was a Junior in high school and was home with strep throat. That Valentine's day my Dad brought me a beautiful African Violet and a copy of Love Story. It made that week and day a very special memory.
You have a loving, extraordinary, Dad. How lucky you are.
The ending of this interview was so precious! I love that they are still connected as friends who care deeply for each other so many years later. That’s just beautiful💓
Hopefully, he did make it to see her.
Because we are blessed if we happen to have good friends, especially those who will stick with us through good times and bad.
To this day, that musical piece in the opening scene gets my heart beating faster.
I had just heard it yesterday on Andy Williams YT reruns. And greatest hits YT.
Same
Love means ALWAYS having to say you're sorry, lol.
Exactly. Of course it also means trying very hard not to do anything that you have to apologize for.
I disagree. Been married to my husband for 25 years and I cannot remember when one of us has had to say “I am sorry” to the other one. We implicitly understand if the other one is having a bad day, and try to make it better without any apologies necessary.
@@marys3127 I think it's important to apologize. I've been with my partner for almost 40 years and I always feel better when he does it to me. It's not always easy for me to apologize and maybe that is how you feel as well. But put your ego aside and admit when you are wrong.
🤣 🤣 🤣
As the movie ended, my boyfriend turned to me with tears in his eyes and said "Promise me you'll never die." Huh?
Omg that’s soo romantic 💜
Talk about an unreasonable demand.
OMG, that cracked me up
Wow!
Ali is our fellow neighbor! Santa Fe is magical! She's graceful, kind, generous, stunning, and witty with a wonderful sense of humor! Love Story was epic! Indeed, a tear jerker! Impeccable taste, and stylish is an underscore!🎡
Ali had the look for that time. Straight long hair, snug hats, I loved it.
How lucky we were to live in a time where love was more important than so many things that seem important today.
I agree..
It was a beautiful period of romantic novels, meaningful songs, wonderful hollywood films and clean comedy and well behaved boys way back then!
My parents went to see this movie when they were dating. Dad bought Mom a music box that plays the theme to Love Story. Ali MacGraw is still very attractive.
Seriously...she looks like from Adam’s Family.
Ryan O'Neal is still a handsome man.
Love Story ....Jenny and Oliver...I love the scene when they are playing in the snow at Harvard. I can feel the love they had for each other. I have watched this movie more than 20x and I still cry as if it were the first time.
This movie can be seen for 100 times, it will never end with dry eyes.
That book and movie had such an impact on my life. I'm glad they're still friends.
Love Story. The film that made America cry. 😢
Ali Mcgraw is still stunning, such style, presence, wit. Love Story, the movie, the music, captured hearts and moved many to tears. My mom always wanted the vinyl movie soundtrack played. It seemed mushy then for a pre adolescent but I liked it, along with others we had, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Morricone from my Dad's collection. Francis Lai scored a homerun for this one.
I was thinking the same thing. Ali McGraw's earrings are beautiful & she has stayed forever interesting & gorgeous!!! Ryan O'Neal is still as handsome & charming as ever. Thank you for the the tragic "Love Story" fantasy 💕
I was 10 years old (58 now) when I first saw Love Story at the Drive In with my mother and my sister who was 18 yrs old. I understood exactly what was going on in the movie, I cried just like my sister and my mom. And then I fell in love with Ryan O'Neal. And Ali too.
Yes. They were such a beautiful couple.
After all these years this movie still makes me cry!
Me too 😢
I was 11. I read the book and saw the movie twice. Cried my eyes out. My oldest sister made a hat like Ali wore back then. I have to say, Ali is still a beauty.
That’s beautiful
I sobbed through the movie, I sobbed through the book, and now CZcams wants me to rent it. Here we go again.
I loved the scene in the "sequel" "What's Up, Doc?"
Barbra Streisand: "Love means never having to say you're sorry!" (blinks rapidly)
RoN: "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
Such a stupid line 🤣
That was actually not the sequel. The sequel is Oliver's story. What's Up, Doc? put that line in the movie because it is such a ridiculous line.
Thank you. One of my faves of all time. Couldn't stop laughing!
Just rewatched the clip and it actually was "that's the dumbest thing I ever heard" czcams.com/video/BzWzPWwSnA8/video.html (I know, it really says the same thing)
I remember that!! Loved that movie, too!
She looks AMAZING for 80 years old. Stunning!!
Take another look
@@carltonfaldo2975 she looks stunning! Yes, there is some botox there I'm sure, some filters and lighting, but she looks great without looking like she has a new face!
Ali's earrings are gorgeous. As is the Rothko in the background.
Isn't that Rothko hung sideways?
I’ve heard she is a regular in the Santa Fe galleries and art shows , supporting artists. Lovely lady.
What is more wonderful in the whole world than the ability to love somebody .......I like that
to be loved back! unrequited love is one of the most miserable heartaches one can bear.
Ali Mcgraw, Looks absolutely Stunning.
She is even more beautiful now
Copy that.
Put your glasses on and then come back and delete your comment.
i get your point, maybe you mean shes still beautiful now, yes, although not young anymore, its still on her face. i can see the beauty on it.
She really is an attractive woman, aging naturally...
She’ll be 82 next week. She’s absolutely stunning.
I've never seen it, but I can't hear that song without crying.
Watch it!! ❤
U hv to watch it tho 💕💙
You should see it!
Auntie Fan420: Oh Auntie you must :)
It’s one of the best movies ever made. But if just the song makes you cry, maybe you should NOT see it. 😁
I thought they and still think they were the most BEAUTIFUL couple in the world in this movie..
Ali is one of the fashion industry's original "It" girls of the 1970s, and still stylish to this day.
Yes ❣️ she always had swagg💁💁
Oh I can remember the knee socks & hats. Always tan look. Just beautiful. Then she ran off with Steve McQueen 😘
Yep!
@@gato0082 I always loved her looks. She has that All American look and preppy college girl face. I dream of that. I have light hair and blue eyes.
@@samanthab1923 my mother met Steve McQueen at a party in NYC IN... 🤷 1950'S ? OR later nt. Sure of yr..... I related to her... Long story ... Anyways she had /has Charm ❣️💙(^_-)🌿🌿🌸🌿
Movies are the closest thing we have to time machines. Ryan is an 82 year old man who recently passed, but he still exists as a college kid in love, and will be for hundreds of years into the future.
I love Ali MacGraw! My mom decorated our kitchen with the same curtains and colors that Jenny had in their apartment high-rise. My mom will still mention it, today, when we talk her first home after marrying my dad. I born in 1971. “I copied Ali & loved Ryan on Peyton Place”...I know mom. Haha
Now I need to re-watch to see how the apmt was decorated!
Only in the Movies: "Love means never having to say you're sorry"? Yea, right. Sincerely Apologizing is important in a relationship just like Respect.
Such a stupid line...
Ali Mcgraw was on an episode of The Oprah Show where she pretty much agreed that it was a ridiculous statement.
You just don’t get it putz
hahahaha!! How clueless
That’s not what marriage means I’ll tell you that much right now!
I was a young teen when I read the book and saw the movie. My piano teacher got me the sheet music so I could play the theme song. I still have it. The music still chokes me up but I don't think it would be as powerful if I hadn't seen the movie. It was a sobering glimpse into what "grown-up" could mean in the future. Why are we in such a hurry to grow up?
I saw the movie in 1970..I was 20 years young...now that I'm 70 I realize how stupid the line "love means never having to say you're sorry." Saying you're sorry to one one you love is the cornerstone of longtime love.!!!
I thought it was a stupid line back then - I did not like the film - too depressing.
Not stupid. 1. Don't DO anything to someone that you have to say "I'm Sorry" for.
Agree, real love means saying you're sorry...A LOT!
What it means is never do anything to your partner that you have to be sorry afterwards.
plein aire, Ryan O'Neal actually made fun of that line at the very end of "What's Up Doc," a hilarious Peter Bogdanovich film he made with Barbara Streisand two years after "Love Story" (probably the only Streisand film I enjoy watching). In the final scene, while he is sitting in his seat on a passenger jet, thinking he had lost Barbara Streisand's character, O'Neal's character suddenly overhears her talking to someone else in the row behind him. He shifts his seat into the down position to talk to her (how he did that was funny) and says, "Do you know that I happen to love you?", and she says the line from Love Story and bats her eyes at him. He looks at her and says "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard." I'm sure that scene got tremendous laughs from the audiences when "What's Up Doc" was originally shown in the theaters. It certainly made me laugh. The whole film was funny with excellent slapstick.
I'm 38 and I remember my parents watching Love Story so many times over the years since I can remember..this movie and music is so carved into my subconscious that it feels like my past life. Without a doubt a masterpiece that shows what human beings are capable of. Sadly my generation had experienced maybe just few glimpses of that magic, and younger generations none of it. I am so envy on all of you born at that time, you were truly blessed, if you didn't know it then, you surely know it by now. ...and about: ''love means never having to say you're sorry''.. it means that if you really love someone, there will never be such occasion in which such words will need to be spoken.. in reality, impossible, as an idea, divine and perfect
Spoken perfectly, this is coming from a 42 yr old black asian woman who has never seen this movie but will watch soon
my head just exloded@@corimadison6370
She looks really good for 81. Great Movie!
Brought to tears just hearing the first few notes of music. People who watch this movie today may think it's "cornball" but it is and always has been one of the greatest love stories in my life.
I was in grade school at the time, I think like 5th or 6th grade, when I saw movie at the theater with my friend Paula. I remember we stayed to watch it twice cause it was a short movie. I also read the book. God that really takes me back.
This was the first grown up book I ever read. I was twelve. I loved it!
Just checked my bookshelf. I still have the original paperback from 1970.
I checked out the movie again. It's amazing. Ms. McGraw's wardrobe could still be worn today. Classic!
I so loved this movie. I was a young teen and rushed out and got the soundtrack.
I learned how to play it on the piano. I believe I still have the sheet music for it.
a heartwarming story. thanks for the update CBS
I just loved loved this movie. Ali McGraw so gorgeous and still is.
I seriously cried at the end of this interview!!! Those 2 are just beautiful
Ali MacGraw looks fabulous, thinking of her today, hope she is well. R.I.P. Ryan O'Neal
I suspect the film would have done well without the music, but the musical theme is what made the film become meteoric.
They both looking really goooood.
Beautiful Ali McGraw
Love her!!Ali is an icon 4 embracing her age and always beautiful and classy!!I got into yoga way b4 anyone because of her!!💜
The most inspiring love story of all time
Ali is 100 % right about the score being a gigantic part of the film's success, it's as memorable as the movie itself
Oh my, Ali is still beautiful. I love this movie.
Whenever I hear the music or see scenes from the film, my heart still sighs & my eyes get limpid. Just as I did as a teenager in junior high in 1971. 🥰
In addition, their acting was so real & natural that one would think this was a true story of them !
Danged limpid eyes 👀
Ali is a fabulous, wonderful woman. I am good friends with her son Josh. We both live in the California desert just blocks from each other.
Would you please tell her that her earrings look gorgeous on her?, she still looks so pretty!!!
Steve McQueen stole her away from Josh's dad (movie mogul Bob Evans) when she co-starred with McQueen in "The Getaway" in 1972 🥴
@@zyzzyvacation and then he died.
@@water2wine1 No foul play as I recall 🤔
Lucky you stay safe sending love from UK takecare x
Besides this movie, Francis Lai also composed the music for a Man and a Woman and many other films. When my parents visited France, they bought a double CD with his compositions. To this day, I listen to them.
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One of my all-time favorite movies. I always cry at the end.
Terri,
Have you noticed the greatest love stories that are remembered are the ones that the two leads do not get together in the end,
Romeo and Juliet, Gone with the wind, Casablanca, Titanic, Abbot and Costello Meet the Wolfman.
You get my point.
Ali is GORGEOUS. ❤❤
Ali has aged beautifully!
She's the only actress in Hollywood who didn't have plastic surgery.
As a teenager, I used to have the movie poster on my bedroom wall and kept it for a long time. It's a timeless classic.
I am bawling right now because of the loss of Ryan O'Neal and the beautiful movie, "Love Story". I love both actors and movie. RIP Ryan, you are amd will be loved and missed❤😪🙏 He will always be Preppie to me.
One of the most surreal moments of my life was performing this theme on stage ( as a professional musician) . My husband was performing too and he was dying of cancer.
Not only is the theme music beautiful and sad, but so is the music in that scene where they are playing in the snow on the Harvard campus. We heard that music at the beginning of this segment on CBS Sunday Morning.
I still have the book and I’ve downsized so many times. It survived the many cuts. I adore Ali MacGraw and what little I know about her life in Santa Fe. Her authenticity is enchanting.
Hello Gwen, how are you doing?
Rip Ryan. This film was the first film to touch me.. i was a child❤
Best movie ever Love Story she’s georgous and aging naturally
I was 15 when this came out..I still love this movie...and I still have the book also
I can never forget Love Story.
I was just into my teens, still in school and madly in love with Ryan O'Neal and adored Ali Mgraw.
About 50 years have passed since I saw Love story...!
But the music takes me right back to another time and place when loving meant a crazy thumping heart and so many day dreams.. ☺
Life really was so much simpler than today & it was only the 1970's! & now it's 2021; we have the technology/toy's/anything that can be imagined, yet, something is seriously wrong! ♡♡♡
Yes sir. It is called instant gratification and social media.
@@marys3127
Indeed the bombshells of America.
I hope one of those regrets is his plastic surgery decisions. Next to Ali, who has allowed herself to age gracefully, he looks like a freak.
@@vjhreeves
You're words can be hurtful. I certainly hope that he didn't hear that!
I was born in 1970. I remember in grade school I have four or five classmates all named Jennifer, Jenny, Jenn, etc. I learned why when I saw this movie in the 1990s & I learned how big a hit it was.
Yes. It was a popular name in the 70s. I was born in December 1971 and I'm Jennifer. Though I sometimes wish I had a different name because Jenny does not age well. It's cute to call a little girl Jenny but a 50 year old woman?
@@sinigangnasalmon7532 for some reason, I’ve always felt the same way about the name Josh for men.
Andy Williams also had a big hit single singing the theme to Love Story.
She has done so much for the pups in Santa Fe County. Thank you!
"Love means never having to say you're sorry", I think it means that if you love someone you will never hurt them and since you will never hurt them, you will never have anything to apologize for.
It was the 70’s, we just made stuff up that sounded good and meant...?😂
That was always my take on it.
I just watched this again and again I wept. All these years later, all these times watching it and it still makes me weep. Do you both realize the history you made making this film? It'll always be watched. ♥️
Me too 😢
Ali looks really great. And they are still friends. Lovely.
👍😍She’s still absolutely beautiful. 💝
👍I will always love that movie. 💝
When love is unconditional you don't have to say I'm sorry because you know you've already been forgiven and you move on.
Yes! You never have to apologize for who you really are and you are loved even for your imperfections.
If you know you’re wrong and don’t say you’re sorry, you don’t know how to love someone else.
The only unconditional love I’ve ever experienced has been with my dog. 💖🐾
@@jmbutler5 I am sorry to hear that you haven't experienced in others.
That is the perfect explanation
Ali MacGraw is still stunning. Ryan O'Neal looks pretty rough. I sure did love that movie. I was a junior in high school and at that tender age, it was etched into my memory forever.
O'Neal has been ill for quite some time.
O'Neal has cancer. I'm surprised he is not the kind who talks about his illnesses all the time. Positive man.
@C Me May we all
age that well at 82...
@C Me you can't expect her to look 30 when she is 82 years old.
Love Story was a very simple, sad tale that's as old as time. It's why so many people relate to it and why it holds up, to this day. I always thought of the "love means never having to say you're sorry" line as what it means to have unconditional love for someone. But it's not always realistically attainable...
I remember watching this awesome movie!! I cryed and cryed!! Such a great movie and a beautiful love story! Ali MacGraw is still beautiful!!💖
Of course she is! She's Ali McGraw!
Saw this in the movies as a kid.
I always thought it meant that the person you love wouldn’t need you to say the words. They would understand.
That famous quote from the movie "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became a saying everyone knew and used possibly in one of their relationships for many many years. I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it at age 13 in 1970. I have watched it every time it's been on TV, so probably at least 15 times, I'm 65 now. Best movie ever! But that's the 1970's for ya, we did a lot of things pretty great back then. ❤👍👩🦳
I also saw it at the movies in 1970 when I was 13. It was even a bit scandalous because she said some " bad words", and my mother disapproved! I still have the sheet music that my piano teacher gave me when I begged to be able to learn it. I was so determined, I managed it, even though it was quite above my level, and I would cry while I played it. Ah, so long ago ! I hated Junior High, but that is one good memory.
Means no regrets for love..idk
She is a classic and a quality lady.They hit the jackpot casting her!
Ali absolutely glows
Ali dodged a bullet by not getting in a realtionship with Ryan.
Kelly,
I know right?! When said his problem was his wife and kid and that he just wanted to be free I thought to myself,” Damn that’s brutally honest.” Callus but honest.
something about him, not an attractive man. Farrah could have done better.
@@jmbutler5 he was a good looking guy in his youth...
@@jmbutler5 She did. She had Lee and gave him up .
@@marcathens2951 Lee wanted Farrah to be too traditonal and her background just didn't support his efforts. Lee also wanted her to stay home and serve him too,I wouldn't say Lee was better more than I would say he wasn't good enough.
I met Ali one afternoon in a Beverly Hills restaurant I was working in, and her daughter was one of our employees. It was like meeting someone I already knew. When I watch the film, Love Story, there are a few scenes where I see our physical likeness, especially around the eyes.
Ali only has a son, not a daughter.
When stars were really STARS ✨
Ali MacGraw seems like such a class act.
I remember going and seeing this movie and I was only 11 at the time and movies weren't all action and CGI way back then. Movies were about story and character. I knew it was a hit but I didn't know it was such a big hit and would have made the equivalent of $1 billion dollars today. But I do remember the theater was full. I don't remember crying at the end because as this story showed he says she dies but I don't remember much about this movie except her calling him preppy and that famous line. I thought about that line and I came to the conclusion that it meant you never had to say you were sorry because you loved someone so much that you never hurt them and would never have to say sorry for it..
I wasn’t old enough to see the movie at the time, but my sister had to book which I secretly read..& yes, I had the hat! Loved that hat!
Yeah, my girlfriend at that time had the hat and really pulled off that look. Sweet memories.
The essence of elegance.........
They grew up so nice. Still have that elegance...and the calm real love brings !
Ali is a Santa Fe resident and regular at the International Folk Art Market. My father and I met her there one summer and I mentioned my mom was an extra that jumped out of the way of Steve McQueen's fire car in The Towering Inferno. "And that's our connection!" She replied.
So she has a sence of humor
That prophetic ending of Inferno still haunts me. I’m paraphrasing but McQueen looks up the tower, looks back to Paul Newman & says humans were not made to build buildings that high. One day something terrible will happen to a skyscraper & it’ll take out thousands. Man was just not meant to go that high up.
@@ns2110theonly Yeah, they could have been talking about Faye Dunaway too. Ma said the crew gave her little sniffs of coke to stay awake during the all-night shoots.
@@steveconn I’ve heard that about her too, on other film sets though. She was a piece of work and not even essential to the film. So cool about your connection though!
@@steveconn wait. I JUST caught your joke😂Classic. My reply still applies even with my delayed reactions :-)
I remember going to the movies and seeing Love Story. Back then you could stay all day and watch the movies over and over. By the way, I own an original vinyl album.
This is the best romance movie ever in American. Ali was great. She was the best young actress that time. This movie made me cry alot. Its just hits u in many ways of reality