Love Story
Drama, Romance
Paramount Pictures  (1970) 100 mins GP

6.7 (7,704 votes)
Wealthy Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O’Neal) is attending Harvard, the latest in a list of Barretts to do so. There he meets Radcliffe scholarship student Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali McGraw). Against the wishes of his father, the two fall in love and marry. Oliver Barrett III thereby disowns his son and severs all financial ties. Jenny takes a job teaching in a small, private school while the young couple struggles to put Oliver through law school. The two can barely make ends meet, but they are very in love and extremely happy together. Finally Oliver graduates and finds employment with a prestigious law firm. It looks like their troubles are over. They decide to have a baby. Time passes, and Jenny fails to conceive. They seek help from a doctor who performs many tests. He discovers that Jenny is terminally ill and tells Oliver. Oliver doesn’t tell Jenny and tries to continue a normal life. Desp...

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Cast and Crew
Ali MacGraw  ......  Jennifer Cavalleri
Ryan O'Neal  ......  Oliver Barrett IV
John Marley  ......  Phil Cavalleri
Ray Milland  ......  Oliver Barrett III
Russell Nype  ......  Dean Thompson
Katharine Balfour  ......  Mrs. Barrett
Director  .....  Arthur Hiller
Producer  .....  Howard G. Minsky; David Golden
Writer  .....  Erich Segal
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When Jenny phones Oliver's dad to decline the birthday invitation, Oliver is wearing a different pair of jeans than he is wearing in the next shot when he runs in the streets looking for her. (more)

Trivia:
The most famous line from the film, "Love means never having to say you're sorry", was actually misspoken from the script. Originally the line was supposed to be: "Love means not ever having to say you're sorry." (more)

Filming Locations:
119 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Oliver Barrett IV: What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 13 nominations (more)