Jessica Medlicott
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Love Among the Ruins is a 1975 American made-for-television romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier which premiered on ABC on March 6, 1975. [2] Plot. The story is set in 1911, at the end of the Edwardian period.
- Comedy Drama Romance
Love Among the Ruins. An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed...
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- George Cukor
- Romance, Comedy
- Katharine Hepburn
Mar 6, 1975 · Love Among the Ruins: Directed by George Cukor. With Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Richard Pearson. An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Cukor
- 1975-03-06
An outstanding, multi-award-winning romantic comedy, written especially for Hepburn and Olivier, acting together for the first time and each winning an Emmy Award. Hepburn plays an aging actress being sued for breach of promise and Olivier is a blunt barrister, her one-time lover, who must...
- George Cukor
- Gwen Nelson
A charming romantic comedy TV movie set in Edwardian England directed by George Cukor, starring Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, about an ageing actress who employs a barrister who loved her years ago to defend her against a breach of promise charge.
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- George Cukor
Overview. An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier.
Apr 12, 1976 · Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Made for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Oliver, and director George Cukor. The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fiance.
