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Directed by Sydney Pollack, from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents, The Way We Were premieres in New York. Told partly in flashback, the film charts the unlikely romance between a plain-Jane Jewish political activist (Barbra Streisand) and an impossibly handsome WASP writer (Robert Redford) from their first flush of mutual attraction on a college campus in 1937, through a fractious post-war marriage to their inevitable bittersweet separation in the 1950s. Co-starring Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles and Patrick O’Neal, the film is a huge box-office success and wins Oscars for Marvin Hamlisch’s score and Streisand’s haunting title song.
