Love Among the Ruins (film)
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For other uses of this title, see the Love Among the Ruins disambiguation page.Love Among the Ruins is a made-for-television movie (
1975) starring
Katharine Hepburn and Sir
Laurence Olivier.
Set in
Edwardian England,
Love Among the Ruins tells the story of Jessica Medlicott (Hepburn), an aging grande dame of the
London theater. When Medlicott is accused by a young man of seducing and then abandoning him, she retains the services of the greatest
barrister in Britain (Olivier), who turns out to be a former suitor still in love with her.
Love Among the Ruins was the first made-for-television movie directed by film legend
George Cukor, who purposely cast Hepburn (a lifelong friend) and Olivier to give his television directorial debut star-power.
The show took home several
Emmy Awards, including Hepburn and Olivier for Outstanding Performance, and Cukor for Oustanding Directing.
