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Ali MacGraw
Birth at
1 April 1939
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The daughter of artists Eli McGraw herself was going to make a career as an artist and even prepared for it at Wellesley College. At the age of twenty-two, Eli entered the world of high fashion, becoming an assistant editor of the fashion magazine Harper Bazaar. Later, she began helping a photographer from the same magazine, until someone decided that Ali herself looked too good to be on the other side of the camera. Since then, Ali has migrated to magazine covers and commercials. In 1968, Eli tried
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The daughter of artists Eli McGraw herself was going to make a career as an artist and even prepared for it at Wellesley College. At the age of twenty-two, Eli entered the world of high fashion, becoming an assistant editor of the fashion magazine Harper Bazaar. Later, she began helping a photographer from the same magazine, until someone decided that Ali herself looked too good to be on the other side of the camera. Since then, Ali has migrated to magazine covers and commercials.
In 1968, Eli tried herself in the movies. One of the executive producers of Paramount Studio Robert Evans was so fond of the beauty Eli that he began to promote her career. Through his efforts, Ali in 1970 got on the list of performers for the film "Love Story", was nominated for an Oscar and married Evans.
Two years later, Ali left her benefactor for actor Steve McQueen, with whom she played together in Sam Peckinpah's film Escape (we have a better known remake of this film with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger). But Robert Evans continued to contribute to her career.
In 1974, Mia Farrow got a role in The Great Gatsby, which Ali considered almost her own, and McGraw arranged a four-year break from the movie. She returned only after Peckinpah was invited to the film Convoy and, apparently, in vain, because the film failed in all categories. After participating in another film, Eli McGraw completely switched to television series. For a while she played in Dynasty, then in Winds of War, then in Chinese Rose. In 1994, she appeared in the television movie Natural Causes.