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Harvard University (A.B., A.M., PhD) Spouse. Karen Marianne James (1975–2010; his death; 2 children) Website. erichsegal.com. Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its film adaptation.
Love Story. (1970 film) Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 eponymous novel. It was produced by Howard G. Minsky, [4] and directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut.
Loving is a 2016 American biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. [6][7][8][9] The film was produced by Big Beach and Raindog Films, [10][11 ...
Dec 22, 2020 · The 50th anniversary edition of the novel Love Story includes an introduction by Francesca. Erich Segal was 30 years old and a professor at Yale when he wrote the 131-page Love Story. The idea ...
- Elizabeth Blair
- Oliver Was Part Al Gore, Part Tommy Lee Jones
- The Film Went from Screenplay to Novel to Movie
- Ali Macgraw Made Good on “Most Promising Newcomer”
- Ryan O’Neal Came Recommended from Segal
- There’S A Sequel
Erich Segal earned his doctorate in comparative literature at Harvard in 1965. Throughout his academic career, he would teach at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Oxford. But it was two students that he met at Harvard in 1968 that would inspire one of Love Story’s two main characters, Oliver Barrett IV. They were roommates Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones. ...
The trailer for Love Story. (Uploaded to YouTube by Movieclips Classic Trailers) Segal had written Love Story as an original screenplay, as he’d already had experience from working on pictures like Yellow Sub...
Though the category no longer exists, Ali MacGraw earned the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer on the strength of her performance in 1969’s Goodbye, Columbus. She only had one credit prior to that, a walk-on role in A Lovely Way to Die. Those breaks came after she’d spent eight years modeling, doing commercials, and working as a photographer...
Ryan O’Neal, who would play Oliver, had been an active TV and movie presence for a decade before Love Story. He had been one of the stars of the very popular Peyton Place on TV, and had branched out into films. One of those films was The Games, which Segal had co-written. Segal suggested O’Neal to Paramount for the part of Oliver based on that expe...
Spoiler alert: Jenny dies of leukemia at the end of Love Story (technically, it’s not a spoiler, as the first line of both the novel and the film is “What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?” And while the end of book and film suggest some reconciliation between Oliver and his father, Segal explored it further in 1977’s Oliver’s Story. T...
Nov 12, 2016 · The new film is inspired by a 2011 HBO documentary about the Lovings called The Loving Story. Its director, Nancy Buirski, is one of the producers (along with Colin Firth and Ged Doherty) who ...
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The theme music for Love Story is appropriately named "Love Story". It was written by French composer Francis Lai. In fact, Lai wrote the majority of the music for the movie and won an Academy Award (1971) for Best Music, Original Score for the movie.
