Hollywood Flashback: 'Love Story' Stars Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal Look Back on Film Amid 50th Anniversary
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hollywoodreporter.comThe origin story of Love Story, which celebrates its 50th anniversary with a limited-edition Blu-ray and, on Feb. 12, a double star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, is a rocky one.
Erich Segal's screenplay about star-crossed lovers garnered little interest until Paramount head of production Robert Evans took a chance on it for the floundering studio, whose parent company Gulf+Western was about to walk after a string of box office flops.
At the studio's request in advance of the film, Segal turned his script into a novel, which became a best-seller upon its release on Valentine's Day 1970.
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