The Girl on the Balcony Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo & Juliet

Olivia Hussey, Alexander Martin, Franco Zeffirelli, Carol Monda

eAudio - 2018

In 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career ...At only sixteen-years-old, she was an internationally celebrated overnight discovery. The part was an opportunity of a lifetime for a simple girl from Buenos Aires, Argentina. But for Olivia, admired for her beauty and innocence, and praised as a fresh and burgeoning young talent, the role of movie star was hard to play, and harder still, to live up to.In this candid memoir, Olivia Hussey tells her story—from being an "It Girl" in swinging '60s London and her endurin...g friendship with Romeo & Juliet costar Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages—including one with Dean Martin's son, Dino—motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia,... more