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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Love Story
| 'Love Story' tracks Jenny's relationship with a fellow she calls Barrett. What's his full name? | Love Story
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Oliver Barrett IV. According to the movie, Barrett's great-grandfather donated Barrett Hall to Harvard.
| What does Jenny's father do for a living? | Love Story
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He bakes pastries. Pastries! NOT cookies! Or so Jenny insists.
| How do Jenny and Barrett feel about the 'church bit' (and the 'God bit')? | Love Story
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negative. This causes Jenny's Catholic father some concern.
| Barrett's falling-out with his father causes some difficulty when it comes time for Barrett to pay for what? | Love Story
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law school. He doesn't receive financial aid because he's a Barrett, and Barretts don't NEED financial aid.
| What is Jenny's great unsatisfied interest? | Love Story
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music. She gave up a scholarship to study music in Paris so that she could marry Barrett. (Aw! Ain't that SWEET?)
| What does the doctor tell Barrett Jenny is dying of? | Love Story
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He doesn't specify. Seemed odd that Barrett never questioned that rather sketchy diagnosis ...
ice hockey. Barrett was singlehandedly responsible for losing the title to Cornell (so sad!) And yes, ballroom dancing is a sport. The Australian movie 'Strictly Ballroom' is hilarious, by the way. It's a much, much better movie than 'Love Story.'
| When Barrett gives Jenny his father's phone number and she dials, many audience members become amused. Why? | Love Story
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She isn't dialing the number he gave her! She's dialing 555-5555!. The Pacific Bell payphone in Washington DC was actually a gaffe from the film 'Die Hard 2'.
| Jenny and Barrett move to what city in order to pursue Barrett's career? | Love Story
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New York City. Jenny dies in New York.
| Early in the movie, Barrett asks Jenny, 'Who's Phil?' after she ends a phone call. So, for {$64,000,} who IS Phil? | Love Story
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Jenny's father. Phil doesn't believe in titles like 'Dad' or 'Mister.' He's enlightened, and everything. I think he's supposed to be the comic relief, but I'm not sure, because he wasn't comic. He was, however, just about the sole likeable person in the entire movie. (IMHO)
Radcliffe library. Oliver needed to borrow a book to study for an exam. Jenny snottily asked him if Harvard did not have its own library.
music. Oliver discovered this while checking out her notebooks over coffee. He was impressed that she was taking an honor's course.
| When Oliver took Jenny to meet his parents for the first time, Jenny was awed by the palatial Barrett mansion. What did Jenny say she wished? | Cry Me a River III: "Love Story"
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that her name was Abigail Adams or Wendy Wasp. Jenny knew Oliver was rich, but not that rich. As they made their way to the den, she quipped that she saw half the buildings at Harvard hanging on the wall. She just knew that Oliver's parents would look down on her because she was of Italian heritage and not some Back Bay blue blood.
| Oliver and his father discuss Oliver and Jenny's wedding plans in a restaurant over dinner. Mr. Barrett is not turning handsprings at this prospect. What does he tell Oliver that he will do if he marries Jenny now? | Cry Me a River III: "Love Story"
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not give him the time of day. Oliver told his father that he (Mr. Barrett) did not know the time of day and stomped angrily out of the restaurant and out of his father's life. Oliver Barrett III is excellenty played by veteran actor Ray Milland, who also had leading roles such classics as "Lost Weekend" and "Dial M For Murder".
christmas tree salesman. After a lady made him haul several trees to her car and back, she only tipped him a quarter. He mouthed "Merry Christmas" behind her back but we knew he really wanted to tell what she could do with her quarter.
third. Jenny jokingly told him that she wouldn't be impressed until she met numbers one and two.
Mr. Barrett's 60th birthday party. Jenny pleaded with Oliver to patch things up with his father before it was too late, as Mr. Barrett was not getting any younger, but stubborn Oliver refused. This resulted in their memorable first, big fight, and the first big weep for the audience when they made up.
Jonas and Marsh.
Oliver went to his father to borrow money for Jenny's medical expenses. He did not want to tell his father why he needed the money. Mr. Barrett asked snidely if they did not pay Oliver at Jonas and Marsh.
Mr. Barrett:(stiffly) "And doesn't she teach?"
Oliver: (angrily) "Don't call her 'she'."
bought two tickets to Paris. Oliver felt guilty because Jenny gave up a music scholarship that she really wanted in Paris to marry him and he wanted to make it up to her.
| When Jenny and Oliver told Jenny's father that they did not want to be married in church, he jumped to the wrong conclusion. What did he assume? | Cry Me a River III: "Love Story"
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that they did not want to be married in a Catholic church. Jenny's father, Phil could see his daughter was happy and stated
"God will bless this union in any church". It was then that Oliver and Jenny inform Phil that they were "kinda negative on the God bit".
Jenny's father is played by veteran character actor John Marley. One of his more famous roles was that of the movie producer who gets the gristly "surprize" in his bed in "The Godfather".
"I wish I hadn't promised Jenny I'd be strong for you.". Ironically, just before she died, Jenny asked Oliver to be strong for Phil.
because that was his name. Jenny and her father had a very informal yet loving relationship. Oliver's relationship with his own father is a lot more distant and strained.
fertility problems. It was then that Oliver found out Jenny's condition was much more serious.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry".. He remembered what Jenny had said to him on the occasion of their first fight so long ago. This is when even the hardest of hearts in the audience finally give in and weep.
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