This was the first major movie production of this play to cast a leading actor and actress who were close to the ages of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Franco Zeffirelli needed to get special permission to show Olivia Hussey, who was only fifteen, topless in one scene. Leonard Whiting, who was from Great Britain, was sixteen at the time (the legal age of consent in Britain is sixteen) and did not need permission. Italy, where this movie was made, has similar age laws.

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