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Romeo and Juliet is an Oscar-winning 1968 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. The film's tagline is No ordinary love story...

The film was adapted for the screen by Franco Brusati, Maestro D'Amico and Franco Zeffirelli, also being directed by Zeffirelli.

It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Pasqualino De Santis) and Best Costume Design (Danilo Donati) and was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.

The film is notable for being one of the first filmed versions of the play in which the main actors are near to the ages of the characters in the play; Leonard Whiting was seventeen during filming, and Olivia Hussey was sixteen. The film garnered some controversy at the time in Italy as the two leads (who were underage at the time) appear naked.

Cast

Leonard Whiting
- Romeo
Olivia Hussey
- Juliet
John McEnery - Mercutio
Milo O'Shea
- Friar Laurence
Pat Heywood
- The Nurse
Michael York
- Tybalt
Bruce Robinson - Benvolio
Paul Hardwick - Lord Capulet
Natasha Parry - Lady Capulet
Antonio Pierfederici - Lord Montague
Esmeralda Ruspoli - Lady Montague

Trivia

In order to show Olivia Hussey
topless in one scene, director Franco Zeffirelli had to get special permission from the Italian censors.

The film's "love theme", written by Nino Rota, is widely recognized in the UK because of its use by the disc jockey Simon Bates in his "Our Tune" feature.

Hussey was denied entrance to see the film in Britain based on its initial rating of "A" for Adult, although it received its rating based on her own brief nude scene, and Hussey commented at the time on how she was not permitted to see something that "I saw in the mirror every day."

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