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Franco Zeffirelli

July 2024

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX Shutterstock (1619686a) Romeo And Juliet, Natasha Parry, Olivia Hussey, Pat Heywood Film and Television

    Pat Heywood obituary

    Stalwart of the British stage who was also known for her film roles in Romeo and Juliet and 10 Rillington Place

May 2023

  • Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey were teenagers when filming Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet movie child abuse lawsuit to be thrown out by judge

    The stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s Oscar-winning film have tentatively lost their battle to receive damages over a sex scene filmed when they were teenagers

January 2023

  • VARIOUS<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo By SNAP / Rex Features FILM STILLS OF 'ROMEO AND JULIET' WITH 1968, OLIVIA HUSSEY, LEONARD WHITING, FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI IN 1968 VARIOUS NO MERCHANDISING 1968, OLIVIA HUSSEY, LEONARD WHITING, FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI

    Hollywood still has a power problem when it comes to filming intimate scenes

    Adelaide Waldrop
  • Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliette, 1968.

    Franco Zeffirelli’s son criticises Romeo and Juliet actors for nudity lawsuit

  • Peter Bradshaw

    The $500m Romeo and Juliet case opens a new frontier for #MeToo reckoning

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Franco Zeffirelli directing Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet actors sue Paramount for child abuse in 1968 film

25 June 2019

  • Romeo and Juliet - 1968Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting Director: Franco Zeffirelli

    Romeo and Juliet, from Ashcroft to Zeffirelli – in pictures

    Franco Zeffirelli, who died this month, directed beloved versions of Shakespeare’s tragedy on stage and screen. We look back at productions starring, among others, Peggy Ashcroft, David Tennant and Paapa Essiedu

18 June 2019

  • Franco Zeffirelli and Brooke Shields

    'An obsessive, mischievous genius': actors pay tribute to Franco Zeffirelli

    Brooke Shields, Robert Powell, Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant share their memories of working with the virtuoso director

15 June 2019

  • Franco Zeffirelli directing Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet.

    Franco Zeffirelli obituary

    Celebrated director of stage and screen who created lavish opera productions and brought new audiences to Shakespeare with his 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet
  • Peter Bradshaw

    Franco Zeffirelli was a master charmer - no wonder we all fell for his Romeo and Juliet

    Peter Bradshaw
    His take on Shakespeare’s tragedy tapped the zeitgeist, but Zeffirelli’s whole body of work pulsated with an irresistible camp and romanticism

    • Ciao, Franco! Zeffirelli electrified audiences and threw crazy parties

    • Franco Zeffirelli – a life in pictures

    • Franco Zeffirelli, revered Italian director, dies aged 96

August 2018

  • ROMEO AND JULIET [BR / IT 1968] OLIVIA HUSSEY as Juliet

    Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild'

    Melding Shakespeare with the spirit of rebellion, Hussey became the world’s most famous teenager. Then she went to live at Hollywood’s most notorious address

May 2016

  • Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – Zeffirelli's honey-drenched Shakespeare

    It may look old-fashioned in places, but the Italian director’s lively version of Shakespeare, stuffed with beautiful actors, has elegance and charm

March 2016

  • Fanny Ardant

    Fanny Ardant: 'I suffer profound despair – I see things noir'

    Fresh from directing Gérard Depardieu in the role of Stalin, the French star is now staging Sondheim’s Passion in Paris. She talks about the art of pretending, embarrassing her children and the power of love

July 2012

  • Maria Callas and Renato Cioni in Tosca, London, 1964

    How we made
    How we made: Franco Zeffirelli and John Tooley on Tosca (1964)

    'A nervous Callas stood in the wings, clutching Zeffirelli's arm. Even her dresser was bruised by her grip'

December 2006

  • Zeffirelli returns in triumph

    Some of the critics may have felt it was backward-looking, or even kitsch. But the audience at the opening night of the La Scala season loved it, and they gave the veteran director Franco Zeffirelli a triumphant welcome after 14 years away from Italy's fabled opera house.

November 2006

  • A fighter at the opera

    John Hooper

  • Zeffirelli tells all about priest's sexual assault

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