“Love Story” director Arthur Hiller had his own love story. For 68 years he was married. Only two months after the death of his wife, social worker Gwen Hiller, the filmmaker is now died with 92 years.
The love tearjerker “love Story” brought millions of people cry. The melodrama of 1970 with the famous phrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” admitted at the box office from strong.
The story of the rich Harvard student Oliver Barrett, of the beautiful, but poor and dying in the end Jenny Cavalleri married against the wishes of his father, not only made the main actor Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw famous overnight. It was also the biggest success story for director Arthur Heller.
With 92 years the filmmaker died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes. Throughout his life, he had a great passion for telling stories vividly, also mentions in a communication from the Oscar Academy. From 1993 to 1997 Hiller was himself chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives each year the Oscars.
“I wanted that one does not howling from the beginning”
“Love Story” was no easy feat. The funds were scarce, the script by Erich Segal corny. “I have my ass off, so it was no soap opera,” said Hiller, 2010, the magazine “Vanity Fair”. “I wanted that one takes an interest, but howls not from the beginning.” He should have sworn that time to spend no more than two million dollars for the filming. “I have the damn movie $ 25,000 delivered under budget,” assured the Canadian-born.
His craft was amply rewarded. “Love Story” received seven Oscar nominations, including for director, actor and best film. At the end there was only one Oscar for the music, but Hiller was compensated with the Golden Globe for Best Director
Ali MacGraw:. “I will miss him terribly”
“He was an exceptional, talented, generous man and I will miss him terribly, “told his now 77 years old actress Ali MacGraw. He was an integral part of one of the most important experiences of their lives, cited the “Hollywood Reporter” from the release of the actress.
The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland was rescued in November 1923 in Edmonton, Canada. Even with eleven years he took over in the amateur theater his parents’ small rolls. After serving for the Canadian Air Force during World War II in Europe, he came in the 1950s on the television to the movie.
success with comedies
had before the “Love Story” he already with comedies like “Only for officers” (with James Garner and Julie Andrews) and “Hotel whispers” (with Walter Matthau) success. The comedian duo Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, he took later for the action comedy “Silver Streak” and “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” before the camera.
With Oscar-winner Maximilian Schell ( “Judgment Nuremberg “) he turned 1975 drama” the Man In the Glass Booth “. It plays Schell (1930-2014) a Jew who claims to be after the war as a Nazi, to set a war crimes trial in transition. The role brought the Austrian-born another Oscar nomination.
2002 Hiller was awarded an honorary Oscar
Hiller had in his long career only one Oscar-chance with “Love Story”. But in 2002 he was again on the big stage, as the academy director for his humanitarian work with the honorary Oscar “Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award” honored. Hiller had life used for charities and civil rights groups ..
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