Actors Olivia Hussey, 73, who played Juliet at 16, and Leonard Whiting, 74, who played Romeo at 17, initially filed a lawsuit against the studio in December of 2022.
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting's second lawsuit against Paramount over an underage nude scene shot for their 1968 film Romeo and Juliet was dismissed today by a Superior Court judge.
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 screenshot from the trailer of the 1968 film version of "Romeo and Juliet" LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed ... took aim not so much at the original film but at the 2023 ...
The stars of the 1968 film version of “Romeo & Juliet” have lost another battle in court over the movie’s bedroom scene. Olivia Hussey, who played Juliet and was 16 at the time ...
In 2021, Taylor Swift referenced the movie in her reclaimed version ... But there’s a sour irony here: The 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet featured both Hussey and fellow teen star Leonard ...
Paramount Pictures won a round in court Monday when a judge ordered dismissed on free-speech grounds a renewed lawsuit by the then-teenage stars of the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," in which the ...