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During post-production, several scenes were trimmed or cut. Act 5, Scene 3, in which Romeo fights and eventually kills Paris outside Juliet's crypt, was filmed but deleted from the final print. [13] According to Leonard Whiting and Roberto Bisacco, Zeffirelli cut the scene because he felt it unnecessarily made Romeo less sympathetic. [14]
That promise was broken, as Romeo and Juliet contains a scene in which the then 16-year-old Hussey and 17-year-old Whiting lie naked in bed, recovering from an implied sexual act. The scene ...
A judge on Thursday said she will throw out a lawsuit over a nude scene in the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” after finding that the film is protected by the First Amendment. The stars of ...
MacMillan only had five months to choreograph the full ballet as The Royal Ballet hoped to perform Romeo and Juliet in its upcoming American tour. He, Seymour, and Gable planned the ballet around the characters and their pas de deuxs. They envisioned Juliet as the headstrong character, making decisions, while Romeo was "swept off his feet by love".
The third act nude sequence, it is claimed, was "secretly filmed" in September 1967 by director Franco Zeffirelli, over the objections from the two stars, who played Romeo and Juliet in the film, released in 1968. If substantiated, this would show that Whiting was aged 17 years and 2 months during the controversially shot scenes-below the legal ...
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were just teenagers when they electrified audiences in the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli.The film was a hit and was ...
Juliet in the balcony scene of S4C's Shakespeare: The Animated Tales version of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet may be one of the most-screened plays of all time. The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor 's multi- Oscar -nominated 1936 production Romeo and Juliet , Franco Zeffirelli 's 1968 film Romeo and ...
The United Kingdom theatrical release date was April 1. [4] Orlando Bloom starred as Romeo. This production depicts Romeo and his Montague family with white actors, while Juliet and her Capulet family are depicted with black actors. [2] The production was a modernization featuring a Triumph motorcycle and zip-up jackets. [3]