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Actress: Romeo and Juliet. At age 15, when most young women are nurturing dreams of romance, Olivia Hussey was giving life to Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). Her performance in one of the most celebrated roles ever written in the English language won her the Golden Globe and two successive Best Actor Donatello Awards ...
Aug 1, 2018 · Wed 1 Aug 2018 09.32 EDT. A t their first press conference in 1967, Romeo and Juliet clutched each other’s hands. “For safety,” star Olivia Hussey insisted to the Guardian. The paper noted...
Oct 7, 2018 · REX/Shutterstock. Did they, or didn’t they? Any baby boomer who saw Franco Zeffirelli ’s sumptuous “Romeo & Juliet,” which opened in U.S. theaters Oct. 8, 1968, has wondered if stars Olivia...
Jan 22, 2019 · Romeo and Juliet. Actor interviews. Shakespeare film adaptations. Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 113. Olivia Hussey was just fifteen when Franco Zeffirelli cast her in Romeo and Juliet. When the film was released in October 1968, it catapulted Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the young actor playing Romeo, to global stardom.
Olivia Hussey. Actress: Romeo and Juliet. At age 15, when most young women are nurturing dreams of romance, Olivia Hussey was giving life to Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). Her performance in one of the most celebrated roles ever written in the English language won her the Golden Globe and two successive Best Actor ...
As the young lovers whose affair threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families in Renaissance Verona, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting vividly capture the mix of adolescent ardor and turmoil that fuels their destiny-driven liaison.
May 25, 2023 · The actors, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, asserted in the lawsuit filed last year that they were underage at the time of filming, and that the movie’s director, Franco Zeffirelli, had...
