The girl on the balcony : Olivia Hussey finds life after Romeo & Juliet

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The girl on the balcony : Olivia Hussey finds life after Romeo & Juliet / Olivia Hussey with Alexander Martin ; foreword by Franco Zeffirelli.

Hussey, Olivia, (author.). Martin, Alexander, 1973- (author.). Zeffirelli, Franco, (writer of foreword.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781496717078
ISBN: 1496717074
Physical Description: xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Edition: First hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

A rough start -- White shoes -- Under a slate-gray sky -- On the boards -- The audition -- Romeo and Juliet go to the movies -- Italy -- Cinecittà Studios -- Temper, temper -- Mrs. Mayfair and a very sick girl -- One-take Hussey -- Boobs O'Mina -- Late nights -- Was there anything between Romeo and Juliet offscreen? -- Roman holiday -- Meanwhile, back on the balcony -- Actors -- Acting -- Live, to the world -- Teenage heartbreak -- Last, but not least -- The end; now comes the work -- The tour -- Boys -- So I became a movie star -- Christopher Jones -- America -- The end of the long beginning -- Love --Vegas, Dean, and a wedding -- Homemaker -- Back to work -- Guns -- An apple and a flower -- You have to go there to come back -- My Mary and my vice -- Death on the Nile -- India -- What's my line? -- Japan with the toad -- Akira -- Long-distance love -- Up up, and away -- Let the 80s be over -- A song, a Harley, and that hair -- Reality -- Under seige -- Mother Teresa -- Cancer -- Taking a backseat -- Today.

Summary, etc.:

"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 ... In this candid memoir, Olivia Hussey tells her story: from being an "It Girl" in swinging 60s London and her enduring friendship with Romeo & Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages, motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment"--Jacket.