Love Among the Ruins, 1975, George Cuckor

Kate Hepburn and Lawrence Olivier. Is there any more delightful phrase in the whole world? Two actors in their advancing years directed by George Cuckor in a television gem entitled "Love Among the Ruins." Such an unexpected picture. I adored it. Hepburn plays a women in her sixties being sued by a twentysomething dandy for breach of promise. She engages the assistance of a prominent attorney-and unbeknownst to Hepburn-former lover of hers from over 40 years ago. Olivier still feels her youthful scorn and defends her with a mixture of adoration and contempt. In his words: "After almost 50 years of devotion, she doesn't remember me!" A sweet movie deserving of Emmys won for both Hepburn and Olivier (despite a melodramatic courtroom scene bordering on the absurd). Best Kate Line: "My world-the only world I knew-had been destroyed so suddenly, so cruelly and lay about my feet in ruins. Why should any other world endure?"