1970 was the year of love with the actresses. - Jane Alexander playing a white woman torn between race relations and the lover of her life, a black boxer, in The Great White Hope. - Glenda Jackson playing an odd, dominating artist who seems to be obsessed with the idea of love, but doesn't much enjoy it when she has it, in Women In Love. - Ali MacGraw playing the quintessential love couple, a rich boy and a poor girl, in the amazing Love Story. - Sara Miles playing a young, wild eyed woman who marries a spinster schoolteacher out of desperation, only ending up falling in love with a solider in Ryan's Daughter. - and Carrie Snodgress playing a tortured and emotionally abused housewife who finds unexpected and doomed love with a gigolo in Diary Of A Mad Housewife.
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