Franco Zeffirelli’s son has defended the filmmaker over the nude scene in his 1968 adaptation of Romeo & Juliet after the stars of the movie filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for over $ ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Pippo Zeffirelli, the son of the late Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, has publicly criticized the two lead actors of his father’s 1968 Shakespeare ...

Shields was expected to film a sex scene with her co-star, Martin Hewitt, and Italian director Franco Zeffirelli had little sympathy for the fact that this clearly made his young lead uncomfortable.

Director Franco Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, initially told the two that they would wear flesh-colored undergarments in the bedroom scene that comes late in the movie and was shot on the final ...

Ever since it opened at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1981, Franco Zeffirelli’s staging of Puccini’s “La Bohème” has wowed audiences with one of the most marvelous (and famous ...

For Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the then-teen stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” that record of adolescence is not only public, it’s also famous, unclothed ...

Director Franco Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, initially told the two that they would wear flesh-coloured undergarments in the bedroom scene that comes late in the movie and was shot on the final ...

Franco Zeffirelli said of his 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, now about to appear in a digital restoration by the Criterion Collection, that he wanted it to tell ‘a real story in a plausible medieval city ...

Olivia Hussey as Juliet: Zeffirelli chose her over 500 hopefuls because she was ‘mature enough with experience and natural beauty... while still looking 14’ - Alamy ...

Pope Benedict has been in the Vatican for two and a half years Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian film, stage and opera director, has said Pope Benedict XVI needs a makeover of his "cold" image and "showy ...

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