Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins is a 1975 American made-for-television romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier which premiered on ABC on March 6, 1975. Plot The story is set in 1911, at the end of the Edwardian period. Jessica Medlicott is an aging grande dame, formerly an actress of the London theatre, accused of having met, courted, promised marriage to, and then jilted and abandoned her suitor. The much-younger ex-fiancé then files suit, seeking £50,000 in damages for breach of promise. She retains the greatest barrister in the empire, Sir Arthur Granville-Jones, to defend her. He is incidentally also a man she seduced and abandoned 40 years earlier, but who has remained hopelessly in love with her ever since. Cast Katharine Hepburn as Jessica Medlicott Laurence Olivier as Sir Arthur Granville-Jones Colin Blakely as J. F. Devine Richard Pearson as Druce Joan Sims as Fanny Pratt Leigh Lawson as Alfred Pratt Gwen Nelson as Hermione Davis Robert Harris as The Judge Peter Reeves as Maiden John Blythe as Tipstaff Arthur Hewlett as The Usher John Dunbar as Clerk of the Court Iain Sinclair as Pratt's Solicitor Mervyn Pascoe as 1st Barrister Colin Thomas as 2nd Barrister Lincoln Wright as 3rd Barrister Edward Arthur as 4th Barrister John Bromley as 5th Barrister Leslie Southwick as 6th Barrister Stanley Platts as Foreman of the Jury Philip Lennard as 1st Reporter Peter Lund as 2nd Reporter Frank Forsyth as Jessop John G. Heller as Head Waiter Rosamond Burne as 1st Woman Spectator Coral Fairweather as 2nd Woman Spectator Jacqueline Clarke as Miss Pratt T. C. Hogan as Teplow