text: A grief-stricken Oliver leaves the hospital and he sees his father outside, who has rushed to New York City from Massachusetts to offer his help after learning about Jenny's condition. Oliver tells him, "Jenny's dead," and his father says "I'm sorry," to which Oliver responds, "Love  Love means never having to say you're sorry", something that Jenny had said to him earlier. Oliver walks alone to the open air ice rink, where Jenny had watched him skate the day she was hospitalized.
  Cast
  Ali MacGraw as Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri
  Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV
  John Marley as Phil Cavilleri
  Ray Milland as Oliver Barrett III
  Russell Nype as Dean Thompson
  Katharine Balfour as Mrs. Barrett
  Sydney Walker as Dr. Shapeley
  Robert Modica as Dr. Addison
  Walker Daniels as Ray Stratton
  Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Simpson (credited as Tom Lee Jones)
  John Merensky as Steve
  Andrew Duncan as Reverend Blaufelt
  Development
  Erich Segal was an academic who had branched into screenwriting with films such as Yellow Submarine and The Games. He wanted to do a "story out of a 1940s movie" updated to the present day, "based on what I have observed among my students, living as I do right on campus. It deals with today’s personal commitment of one to one and the quest for a permanent relationship which begins much younger than it used to. The old, mindless football game dating is gone. The question of sexual morality is irrelevant, but there is much less ‘swinging’ among young people now than in the old days.”