Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw in Getaway , 1972

Ali MacGraw (born April 1, 1939 in Pound Ridge , New York ; actually Elizabeth Alice MacGraw ) is an American film actress .

Life

Ali MacGraw comes from a wealthy family; her father was the owner of a gas station chain, her mother an artist. In 1957 she was voted the season's most beautiful hotel waitress in Atlantic City , where she worked during her college days. She studied art history and literature at Wellesley College and worked from 1960 as a photo assistant for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar , but also as a stylist and interior designer . Eventually she was discovered as a photo model and in 1968 she got into film . In her first film, The Fastest Way to the Hereafter (A Lovely Way to Die ; Director : David Lowell Rich), she played a small role alongside world star Kirk Douglas ; the film was a flop , however .

With her straight, long black hair and her barely made-up, natural-looking face, Ali MacGraw was considered the new type of "fresh college girl" in the USA in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In 1960 she married Robin Martin Hoen, the marriage ended in divorce after two years. In 1969, MacGraw became known to a wider audience for her role in the comedy The Devil With Innocence (directed by Larry Peerce) and she won a Golden Globe for Best New Actress . On October 24, 1969, she married the film producer Robert Evans .

Evans, who was her mentor in Hollywood, built MacGraw into a star with the melodrama Love Story (1970, directed by Arthur Hiller ). She played a student who fell in love with a fellow student ( Ryan O'Neal ) and eventually died of a blood disease. Love Story hit the zeitgeist and became one of the top hit movies of the early 1970s, with grossing over $ 100 million.

MacGraw received awards for worst actress ( Harvard Lampoon’s Worst Actress of the Year , 1970 and 1972), but also won another Golden Globe (out of three in her career) and was nominated for an Oscar . In Germany, where she was one of the most popular actresses after Love Story , she received three times the Bravo Otto of the youth magazine BRAVO in the readers' choice until 1973 . Despite her popularity, however, the actress was never able to build on the success of Love Story . She made only three other films in the 1970s, none of which were anywhere near as successful.

In early 1971 MacGraw and Evans son Joshua was born, who later also worked in the film business. After her divorce from Evans in 1972, she married Steve McQueen in 1973 , with whom she starred in Sam Peckinpah's action thriller Getaway (The Getaway) . In 1978 this marriage also ended in divorce. In the same year she played the leading female role alongside Kris Kristofferson in Convoy (directed by Sam Peckinpah), an action film in the trucking environment.

1979 followed the less successful tennis opus Spiel mit der Liebe (The Players ; Director: Anthony Harvey) with u. a. Maximilian Schell and a year later the flop Tell me what you want (Just Tell Me What You Want ; director: Sidney Lumet ) with old star Myrna Loy . That ended MacGraw's film career in Hollywood.

She stayed on television . She played leading and supporting roles mainly in thrillers , but also in series . In 1985 MacGraw starred as Lady Ashley Mitchell for a season in the television series The Denver Clan . Her hope of continuing the role in the next season was dashed by Aaron Spelling; she had to die serial death in the hit series. In 1993 she played Uncle Jane Merkel in the series sequel Smoking Colts - He's the Law (Gunsmoke: The Long Ride) alongside James Arness as Matt Dillon and James Brolin .

After a stay at the Betty Ford Center for Addicts , MacGraw lived as an interior designer in Malibu in the 1980s , where she built the homes of her former colleagues in film, a. a. that redesigned by Nick Nolte and Faye Dunaway . During this time she lived in a hut on the beach. She wrote an autobiography called Moving Pictures .

In 1991 People magazine included her in a list of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

She later turned to esotericism and yoga and in 1994 published a yoga video with yoga teacher Erich Schiffmann .

In 2001 she was back in the cinema, she had an appearance in a directorial work by her son Joshua Evans: Glam , intended as a satire on the Hollywood operation; the film was panned by the critics .

In 2006 MacGraw made his debut in the role of Else in a stage adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's film Festen on Broadway . In 2015 and 2016, she and Ryan O'Neal toured the United States with AR Gurney's two-person play Love Letters .

Ali MacGraw lives in New Mexico .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: The Fastest Way to the Afterlife (A Lovely Way to Die)
  • 1969: To the devil with innocence (Goodbye, Columbus)
  • 1970: Love Story
  • 1972: Getaway (The Getaway)
  • 1978: Convoy
  • 1979: Playing with Love (Players)
  • 1980: Just Tell Me What You Want
  • 1983: The Firestorm ( Winds of War , TV seven-parter)
  • 1983: The Drug Syndicate (TV movie, China Rose )
  • 1985: The Denver Clan ( Dynasty , TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1985: Murder Elite
  • 1992: Sailing Tour of Horror (TV film, Survive the Savage Sea )
  • 1993: Smoking Colts - The Long Ride (Movie made for TV, Gunsmoke - The Long Ride )
  • 1994: Death in Bangkok (Natural Causes)
  • 1994: Ali MacGraw: Yoga (also producer) - video
  • 1997: Glam

Web links

Commons : Ali MacGraw  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sheila Weller: Once in Love with Ali. (No longer available online.) Vanityfair.com, March 2010, archived from the original on August 28, 2010 ; accessed on October 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over Divorces From Steve McQueen, Robert Evans . On January 9, 2012, from huffingtonpost.co.uk, accessed October 6, 2018
  3. ↑ Josh Evans - Biography . From imdb.com, accessed May 16, 2016
  4. ↑ Ben Brantley: Haunting Memories of Daddy Dearest in Festen . On April 10, 2006 from nytimes.com, accessed October 6, 2018
  5. ↑ Tickets and Tour Schedule. (No longer available online.) Lovelettersontour.com, 2015, archived from the original on March 7, 2015 ; accessed on October 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Tickets and Tour Schedule. (No longer available online.) Lovelettersontour.com, 2016, archived from the original on May 16, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jordan Riefe: Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw: 'Fame is brutal for women'. theguardian.com, October 16, 2015, accessed October 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME MacGraw, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacGraw, Alice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pound Ridge , New York , United States