The producers of 'Love Story' asked Bill Cleary to find people who could skate in the film’s hockey scenes. “So I said, ‘Hey, we got the Harvard hockey team.’ ” (OnlyAGameNPR)
Ryan O'Neal dons his Harvard hockey uniform for the movie"Love Story." Bill Cleary III is in foreground.
Harvard's Bright-Landry Hockey Center stands at the same spot where Love Story was filmed in 1969, when it was called Watson Rink. , graduated Harvard in 1958. Bill and Bob had played on the Harvard hockey team and led the 1960 U.S. Olympic hockey team to a gold medal. "You’re excited to be part of it, but then when you’re actually showing up, it was very tedious project," Bertagna says."They might adjust the camera angle or the lighting, and you were there all day," Bertagna says.Ryan O'Neal on the set of "Love Story", taking advice from skating advisers Bob Cleary and his brother, Bill Cleary.
There was another problem: Ryan O’Neal had a full head of wavy, blonde hair. The 35-year-old Cleary was follically-challenged. But someone in the wardrobe department came up with a solution: customize Cleary’s Crimson hockey helmet."When they called for his scenes, I remember, they’d put the helmet on, and some guy would come out with a brush or a comb, and they’d comb the wig," Bertagna says."You know, we were still relatively new to Billy as his players.
"They probably had 200 extras," Bertagna says."And, depending on where the scene was being shot, those people moved from section to section. And the same people, they would either wear a white and green scarf if they were Dartmouth fans, and a white and red scarf if they were Cornell fans.""They were long days, let me tell you," Cleary says."It was a wonderful experience. And I have a little bit more appreciation what it takes to make a movie."On Dec.
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