Love Among The Ruins 1975. Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Joan Sims, Gwen Nelson Directed by George Cukor At the end of the Edwardian era. Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) is an aging grande dame, formerly an actress of the London theater, 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 the breach of promise by her. She retains the greatest barrister in the empire, Sir Arthur Granville-Jones (Laurence Olivier), 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.