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<\/p>\nAli MacGraw became a Hollywood superstar overnight. But just as quickly as she rose to fame, she disappeared from show business altogether.<\/p>\n
Today, the 85-year-old actress has settled down in a remote and tiny town, and she\u2019s aging gracefully with her grey hair.<\/p>\n
Ali MacGraw \u2013 born Elizabeth Alice MacGraw \u2013 was born on April 1, 1939, in Pound Ridge, New York, USA. Her mother, Frances, was an artist and worked at a school in Paris, later settling in Greenwich Village. She married Richard MacGraw, who was also an artist. In 1939, Ali was born.<\/p>\n
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Ali\u2019s father Richard supposedly had issues from his own childhood which made him a little bit different from others.<\/p>\n
He had survived a terrible childhood in an orphanage, running away at the age of 16 to go to sea. He would later study at an art school in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaddy was frightened and really, really angry. He never forgave his real parents for giving him up,\u201d Ali explained, saying said her father\u2019s adult life was spent \u201csuppressing the rage that covered all his hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ali MacGraw \u2013 childhood
\nMoney was short for their family, too. Frances and Richard, together with Ali and her brother, Richard Jr, had to move into a house on a Pound Ridge wilderness preserve which they shared with an elderly couple.<\/p>\n