OLIVIA HUSSEY'S death has been reported on her Instagram.

Noooooooo. Was just watching Black Christmas.

What a hussy!

RIP. I finally got around to watching [italic]Black Christmas[/italic].

Link

Oh sad! I fear it's just the beginning of the march of celebrity deaths that happen in the last week of every year.

Man, she was a beauty. I had a crush on her as Juliet.

OLIVIA HUSSEY is dead to me!

She was still alive?

Iirc, she was once married to Dean Martin's son who then went on to marry Dorothy Hamill.

And then he died.

First Dayle Haddon, now Olivia Hussey. When will the tears end?!

Black Christmas was fun-RIP. Olivia. Who’s next?

My dear late friend Sally Kellerman had only wonderful things to say about her during the filming of Lost Horizon. They so enjoyed the singing and dancing together.

Oh no, it's hot chicks say bye, bye week. Dayle Haddon also passed away. Hot chicks go to the bathroom in pairs so maybe there won't be a threesome (so to speak) of deaths.

Charlie.

RIP.

RIP. Black Christmas is an absolute banger.

R16 Perhaps the cheesiest musical number in cinema history.

Two actors who can't sing or dance singing and dancing in...the library.

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Olivia Hussey Eisley, who went peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on December 27th. Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom, and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her.

Born on April 17th, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Olivia lived a life full of passion, love, and dedication to the arts, spirituality, and kindness towards animals. Olivia leaves behind a loving family— her children, Alex, Max, and India, her husband of 35 years David Glen Eisley, and grandson, Greyson, and a legacy of love that will forever be cherished in our hearts. As we grieve this immense loss, we also celebrate Olivia’s enduring impact on our lives and the industry.We thank you for your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time and ask for privacy as we mourn the loss of a truly special soul."

R16 Olivia was pregnant with Dean Paul Martin's son when she made this movie. You can tell she's really cinched into that outfit.

What interesting costume design in that clip at r16.

"Jean Louis was the costume designer for the 1973 film Lost Horizon. Jean Louis Berthault (1907-1997) was a Hollywood costume designer who also worked on From Here to Eternity (1953), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and In a Lonely Place (1950). Lost Horizon is based on the bestselling novel by James Hilton about the fictional place of Shangri-La. The film's costumes were inspired by traditional Tibetan dress, textiles, and embellishment. The film's patterns were also used in the Fall 1973 McCall's Carefree Home Catalog."

I followed her on social media. She loved animals and hated Trump. RIP Olivia

I know her mainly from Romeo and Juliet, of course, but I always think of her in Death on the Nile.

She was sweet and held her own against strong women Angela Lansbury (her on screen mother), Maggie Smith, Lois Chiles,, Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, and Bette Davis.

[quote] Angela Lansbury (her on screen mother)

So she was playing against type?

She and Sally meant a lot to me. Both really nice people that left a mark. Jesus 50 years later we are still talking about them. They are part of our popular culture forever.

She also played Mary in Jesus of Nazareth

R21 I love this article about the making of Lost Horizon, how everything seemed to go wrong, and how it became such a colossal flop. According to the article, they tried to sell clothing inspired by the movie in department stores.

So dies the fairest maid.

The eldergays are really shook by this.

I always felt she looked a little like Jacqueline Bisset

Crazy bitch was no Leonard Whiting.

[quote] She also played Mary in Jesus of Nazareth.

How could I forget? But, I did. Thank you, r26.

I was the biggest fan of JoN.

Everybody was SOOOO good-looking and Hussey was breathtakingly pretty.

She was not very old.

R30, she did. They were both stunning

[quote]Oh no, it's hot chicks say bye, bye week. Dayle Haddon also passed away. Hot chicks go to the bathroom in pairs so maybe there won't be a threesome (so to speak) of deaths.

There will be three pairs.

Not just eldergays, I found her in Black Christmas just a few years ago. I paid to be a part of the fan made sequel It’s Me, Billy to Black Christmas and she was set to reprise her role as Jess, but had to back out very last minute due to health reasons. I now see that was no lie.

RIP lovely lady!

I loved her as Juliet. She loved animals and that endeared her to me even more.

Wasn't she involved in a lawsuit against the makers of "Romeo and Juliet" for the nudity they supposedly forced on her? I didn't hear how that turned out.

Recall story Olivia was playing the Virgin Mary in Jesus of Nazareth. As a method actress she was taking her divine role a bit too literally. Having heavenly hallucinations. On location in broiling heat she became hysterical and was holding up shooting.After hours of the Livy's crazy show Anne Bancroft pro that she was ,had had enough. She charged into the tent bitch slapped The Mother of God and shouted 'It's a fucking part! Snap out of it!" Gotta luv Bancroft.

The judge threw it out as frivolous, R38.

She had breast cancer 16 years ago with a double mastectomy and it's been said recently she was struggling again.

[Quote] What a hussy!

What an Olivia!

Hussey & Whiting sued the copyright holders of Romeo & Juliet because Hussey claimed filming her 15yo tittie was sexual explotation of a minor. More than half a century after the fact Olivia realized she was traumatized.

I don't see anything about this from any reputable newssites.

[quote]The eldergays are really shook by this.

Damn straight we are. She was quite the cultural icon in her heyday, after R&J came out. A great beauty who didn't cheapen herself with surgery and other artificial means like many do today.

My bug hole is still bleading!

Why would anyone report this if it wasn't true? Please help me!

I can't believe I still have to be the one to say this, but she was no Teri Garr.

When we lived in Sonoma County, we were waiting to be seated at Gary Chu's in Santa Rosa. Her son(?) came in and asked us if they could be seated ahead of us. The in-laws hadn't arrived so I acceded. He goes out and comes in with a beautiful older woman. She gave us a small smile and went inside. I recognized her.

Didn't know her final husband was David Eisley, who was a hair metal singer of sorts in the LA scene. Sang with Sorcery, Giuffria and Dirty White Boy. Strange that someone so elegant and known for her classical roles and looks was married forever to someone from that genre.

She was before my time and I'm only vaguely familiar with her but she was very pretty in her youth.

The mother of god died right after Christmas!

R51, she was still stunning.

One would think since she no longer had her tits, seeing them preserved forever on film would be appreciated. Ungrateful puttana!

R52 MARY!

Wasn’t she trying to sue over nudity in Romeo and Juliet after saying for decades she was coerced? That was really a shitty thing to do. Lost respect for her.

Oh no! She was in Jesus of Nazareth. She was beautiful. I'm sorry to hear this. 🙏

How’ll TCM edit their “2024 Remembers” train motif to include her?

Her big boobs made her famous.

And then they killed her.

Talk about Shakespearean irony.

Olivia and Leonard Whiting were top 5 most beautiful couples on film, maybe THE most beautiful.

Grande tetta!

I always confused her with Amy Linker from the TV series “Square Pegs”. The same lovely coloring.

What a rare feat to be all of the top five of anything.

I got ya number, Hussey.

Sounds like Whiting is pissed that their law suit was dismissed (from Instagram):

Olivia

We have shared so much since we were two sweet innocent children clinging onto each other for dear life as every photo of us attests to.

You have never been frightened of fighting to fix everything wrong in this world . Rest now my beautiful Juliet no injustices can hurt you now. And the world will remember your beauty inside and out forever.

Leonard

Part 2 of the Black Christmas fan sequel, It’s Me, Billy, made for $130,000, was released two months ago. Olivia was going to play Jess again in the film. Quite a get for a fan made film, but she was reportedly impressed with part 1. Two weeks before filming she backed out claiming health reasons. Filming took place in Spring or early Summer.

Andrea Martin and Margot Kidder said she was no fun on the set of Black Christmas.

R&J was required class room viewing in my high school English Lit class. (before fundies banned it) Remember all the boys were tittalated when they flashed Olivia's jubbllies. I was worried that all I could remember was Lenny Whiting's perfect bum. My first homosex awakeining. Grazie mille Franco.

[quote]Wasn’t she trying to sue over nudity in Romeo and Juliet after saying for decades she was coerced? That was really a shitty thing to do. Lost respect for her.

One of the issues Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were upset about was that photographs of them on the set of Romeo and Juliet in which they were naked were taken without their permission or knowledge. It sounds like they didn't have anyone looking out for them when they made that movie.

She was a true natural beauty.

[quote] They so enjoyed the singing and dancing together ...

with Diana Lee singing for Ms. Ullmann and Andra Willis for Ms. Hussey.

She was a ballsy little gal! Moved into the Tate murder house on Cielo Drive not long after everyone was slaughtered. Said she never felt scared.

^ Link to back story....

My boner mourns for her.

I used to make fun of the costumes in Lost Horizon -until I went to China and found that they were totally authentic.

RIP Olivia. You gave us some great memories.

She had a fat, round face.

Any recent pics? (I mean before she died)

R69 Sure frau for brains.

She was plump in Black Christmas and might have been pregnant or just had a baby. She said she didn’t care about her weight in the movie, and they hid it fairly well. She looked just fine body wise in it to me.

Romeo & Juliet 2021. Apparently they made rent in their golden years by working the Russian R&J conventions. Guess Puty was a big fanski.

[quote]She was plump in Black Christmas and might have been pregnant or just had a baby. She said she didn’t care about her weight in the movie, and they hid it fairly well. She looked just fine body wise in it to me.

The producers of Romeo and Juliet gave her diet pills and Zeffirelli controlled what and when she ate during the film's production. I'm sure that experience stuck with her.

Interview 1967. This was the apex of the youth movement's "summer of love". Romeo and Julliet was Zeffirelli's bid to cash in on the youth culture. His film was a sensation,critical sucess and boffo BO. Of course some dinosaur critics gnashed their dentures pining for those crazy kids Norma Scheer & Leslie Howard.

𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝: But aren't you afraid to leave?

You know what would happen if you go.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚: Happen?

Ah.

I suppose Chang told you that I am old.

That is part of the myth of Shangri-La. Chang did tell you, didn't he?

𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝: Yes.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚: Look at me, Mr. Conway.

Do I look like an old woman?

Is this the skin of an old woman?

Are these the eyes of an old woman?

And in my heart, are these the feelings of an old woman?

Do you believe I have been here for eighty years?

𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞: Like us, she was kidnapped. They brought her here just two years ago.

𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝: Well, I don't believe it. I can't believe it. She's lying.

You're lying. Every word you've said is a lie. Now come on, admit it!

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚: What reason would I have for lying? Look, Mr. Conway,

the chances are we will never live through this terrible journey.

But I would rather go out there with George...

and die in a snowstorm than stay here one minute more.

Leonard Whiting (Romeo)

We have shared so much since we were two sweet innocent children clinging onto each other for dear life as every photo of us attests to. You have never been frightened of fighting to fix everything wrong in this world . Rest now my beautiful Juliet no injustices can hurt you now. And the world will remember your beauty inside and out forever.

Leonard

R81 pills are better than the prick Zef gave Whiting,York and Robinson. Which screenwriter Robinson imortalized as the lecherous Uncle in his Withnail & I.

R84 is not R65.

R83 meds in fridge

"two sweet innocent children "

Puhlezz you senile ole git.. You both fought tooth and nail for those leads. You were both theatre brats. 14 going on 40. Lenny was competing with 200 boys who auditioned "personally" with Queen Franco. His "sweet innocent" arse hole must have throbbed for months. Revisionist nostalgia is laughable. Frauen lap it up.

His "sweet innocent" arse hole must have throbbed for months.

Actually just a couple of days

[quote]OP/R87: meds in fridge

As a matter of fact, I 𝑑𝑜 keep my insulins - Lantus and Humalog - in the fridge.

But if my posting lines from Olivia Hussy's performance in 'Lost Horizon' (1973) threatens you, that's pretty sad.

You have fourteen posts on this thread (not counting the socks), and I've only posted one. Aren't you overreacting?

Just because 𝑦𝑜𝑢 didn't know what it was doesn't mean nobody else here does.

Hmm. Not the OP. Your fourteen posts here began with R28.

But you're awfully territorial for a thread that supposedly isn't yours.

R56 My take on that was that she needed quick money to either pay for her cancer treatments or that she knew she was going to die soon and wanted something to leave behind for her kids. It just doesn't make sense that she should do it after well over 50 years and while she was sick.

Romeo: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and R90 is a triggered ancient Queen.

Juliet: Poisoned indeed he is to death let us pray.

Her film debut

[quote]R93: It is the East, and [R90] is a triggered ancient Queen.

And you weren't triggered when you posted R87?

[quote]R93: Juliet: Poisoned indeed he is to death let us pray.

Ah, the requisite death threat. Now I know who you are, sock notwithstanding.

Obit in Hollywood Reporter

Those Death in the Nile stars have been dropping like flies lately: Angela Lansbury, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith and now Olivia. I'd be shitting bricks if I were Mia Farrow or Lois Chiles.

R95 you type deceased

R97 Everyone dies. Why would they be “shitting bricks?” Do you think they are unaware of this fact?

She looked dyed, dotty & decrepit like R95

She was so beautiful in Romeo & Juliet. RIP Olivia.

Romeo and Juliet is my favorite movie. She was such a big star but them oddly, disappeared quickly from the public consciousness

Has Miss Hussey's cause of death been determined?

^ Yes.

With Hussey's unusual looks and foreign accent she may have been considered hard to cast, R102. Also it may be the case that she found her sudden celebrity at a young age stressful and decided that she would prefer a lower profile career as a working actor. I have read that Olivia Hussey suffered from agoraphobia which would seem to be a major handicap for anyone in that profession.

R103 She had breast cancer in 2008 and was in remission for ten years. She had a recurrence in 2018 that she's been dealing with ever since, going downhill at least since this past spring when she had to pull out of a fan-produced film of some sort, the name of which I can't remember now.

R88 do you not think that a 17 year old giving up his arsehole for a role is a small sign that perhaps someone should have been looking out for them?

All joking aside, has Leonard Whiting actually said the he had sex with Zeffirelli?

R46 & R68, I also remember when my high school English teacher played the 1968 Olivia Hussey/Leonard Whiting 'Romeo & Juliet', -- it was indeed a lovely surprise to see Leonard's perky little naked peach on display.

A different gif than the one at R46:

Her daughter, India Eisley, is lovely.

[quote]Lenny was competing with 200 boys who auditioned "personally" with Queen Franco. His "sweet innocent" arse hole must have throbbed for months.

Side note: Tom Cruise's first movie role was a small part in Endless Love, directed by Franco Zeffirrelli. No doubt in my mind that Tom had to give up his 19 year-old ass for notorious chicken hawk Franco to get cast in that film. I would bet money on it.

Olivia and Margot did interviews for the Black Christmas DVD in 2006. Margot is a hoot. Her interview portion is a must-watch. The two women obviously didn't care for each other. It may be because Margot stole the movie and was the better actress.

Too bad she tainted her legacy with that ridiculous lawsuit.

She also played the wife of Richard Thomas in the TV miniseries IT.

This one hurts.

[quote]She was plump in Black Christmas and might have been pregnant or just had a baby.

Her character was pregnant.

"Having it removed just like a wart."

It's hard to picture that queen Franco Zeffirelli topping anyone. He started out as Luchino Visconti's bottom boy himself.

R117 She had recently had a baby. In the DVD commentary from R113, she talks about one of the reasons she accepted the role in the movie - she wanted a vacation away from her newborn.

There was another young boy in R&J who Zefferelli really went after - and the kid had mental health issues as a result. Wish I could remember which one. Maybe the one who played Tybalt? Or another one of Romeo's friends?

R107 lumpen frau for brains, Blind as to how the industry works. Fact checks with People magazine. Always good for an eye roll.

Not the R&J guy but here's one of FZ's victims speaking out.

Lumpen.

It was the "Benvolio" actor, Bruce Robinson:

Romeo and Juliet itself had a footnote in history for the predatory behaviour of Zeffirelli who died in 2019: he was famously infatuated with a young Bruce Robinson, playing Benvolio. (In Robinson’s later career as a film-maker he was said to have used Zeffirelli partly as a model for the lecherous Uncle Monty in Withnail and I). Now it seems that he also had an unfunny and boorish obsession with Olivia Hussey.

Bruce Robinson was a hot piece in his youth. Zeffirelli definitely had a type.

I found that interview Bruce did with Ruby Wax here years ago. I didn’t care for his liberal use of the word faggot. I’m sorry he was pressured into being Franco’s blow boy though.

She was only 73. Her daughter is my age. It must be very hard to lose your mother in your early 30s.

Olivia seemed like a great lady.

Zef chased screen writer Bruce Robinson/Benvollo who just laughed it off. Franco was madly obcessed with Michael York. This was 1967 the "if it feels good do it era" gaggle of brit teenagers having a "summer of love" in Italy. Their PTSD sexual abuse trauma" only manifested itself 50 years later when they were old,fat,broke and unhireable. Funny how that works. You lumpen "I'm a victim therefore I am" frauen never fail to slurp up this rubbish. Vid done during the shoot. Obviously shoot sex trafficking living hell. PEOPLE! We should all be so lucky.

R126 "pressured"

Franco was madly obcessed with Michael York .

Can one blame him?

R130 he’s always reminded me of Barbra Streisand

Hussey was always such pleasant presence on screen

Wow, Bruce Robinson was a snack.

Lumpen.

DLrs only really interested in Black Christmas

R135 Half this thread is about the underage stuff.

In 1967 Zefferelli was troppo bello. One can eaisly see why Whiting,York,Robinson qued up to offer their tight teenage holes to Franco DILF for a part.

We all know Lilibet's penchant for CHILD pornography!! SICKENING PEOPLE!

Franco Zeffirelli was very good looking as a young man.

Zeffirelli was blazing hot and an artistic genius—who wouldn’t want him?

Bitch stole my act.

How to say "Touched my taint" in Italiano?

25 yo Jonathan pictured here.desperately fighting off his rape by 62yo Zefferelli.

Maestro Franco had squisito taste in ragazzi.

Interview in her first language, Spanish.

[quote] Interview in her first language, Spanish.

Would her last name be pronounced “Ussey” rhymes with “pussy?

They were only 15 and 16 in that film. I'm glad she spoke up later in life. They were taken advantage of.

Why did Leonard age so terribly?

R147 16 and 17.

R147 Oh, my God.

They were consenting adults at that age.

[R46]: At first, I thought Whiting, being a naked guy in the morning, would just stroll over to that balcony and piss off it. But instead he spouts Shakespeare!

R145 stupido how say dubbing n espanol?🤣

R116 what I said auditioning for Mr Z.

One of the great sadnesses about this for me is that Olivia died in a state of trauma over her nude scene in R&J. The obvious solution was to re-stage the trauma by doing a nude scene in 2025, allowing Olivia to re-enter the exploitation but this time with an autonomous, empowered, sex-work-is-work attitude. Hey presto - trauma gone. Now this will never happen. It’s not too late for Leonard

R194 shot but never released

As an Elder gay I've only seen her in Romeo and Juliet with delicious Leo. RIP Olivia.

No — Leo started in the 1968 version. Tyrone Power was Paris.

[quote]R136: Half this thread is about the underage stuff.

More than half of this thread is a troll talking to itself through socks.

The will both have “Romeo and Julia actor/actress“ in the headlines of their obituaries. Why taint best and most beautiful thing you have ever done with a lawsuit?

I'm surprised that Keir Dullea and Andrea Martin outlived Olivia.

I didn't know Keir Dullea was still around.

[quote] I'm surprised that Keir Dullea…outlived Olivia

[quote] I didn't know Keir Dullea was still around.

I suppose he wasn’t gone tomorrow!

R156 Senile. Everyone knows I played Bambiet to Austy's Romeo.

Italian actor Bruno Filippi just died at 76. He is lip syching to the voice of vocalist Glen Weston who died from AIDS in his 40's.

R158 so carps the oldest kween

[quote]More than half of this thread is a troll talking to itself through socks.

Probably not, it's easy to see why Olivia Hussey would generate enough interest on DL to have a big thread with multiple posters.

[quote]R166: Probably not, it's easy to see why Olivia Hussey would generate enough interest on DL to have a big thread with multiple posters.

▲ This from one of the troll accounts (from 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞):

[quote]I wish PoisonedDragon would take the gas pipe. He ruins interesting threads.

[quote]^^oh just STFU you mentally ill freak

[quote]I'm as liberal as can be but even I want to put a firecracker up PoisonedDragons ass and blow his body parts to oblivion. JFC what an exhausting cunt.

[quote]The only good thing I can say about Poisoned Dragon is that he primarily restricts himself to the religious threads and doesn't infect others. He is a sad, sad case of a life gone by. Terrible. It's over for him.

[quote]JFC can somebody crucify Poisoned Dragon?

[quote]^^ no seriously, just die.

[quote]You paranoid fucking lunatic and your sock obsession.

[quote]Poisoned Dragon is the kind of eldergay a lot of younger gays are terrified of becoming.

[quote]^^sad old lonely crazy queen

From 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥:

[quote]Don't try to argue with PoisonedDragon. He's a batshit nut. He isn't even American.

[quote]^^STFU you fucking nutbag. I only have one account, and couldn't give a rat's ass about your mental illness.

[quote]JFC r84 you need to breathe and take your meds and go outside.

From 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬... 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?:

[quote]Poisoned Dragon, your Texas white trash roots are showing.

[quote]Poisoned Dragon you just need to be put down.

[quote]There are several posters (Poisoned Dragon among them) who are are hate filled, insane monsters and lonely, obsessive shut-ins no one wants to interact with. Most of them probably have legit mental illness.

[quote]^^pathetic loser. Go trolldar up your ass... You sad, lonely man.

And that's just from R166's posting history.

Yes, a multi-sock troll is squatting on this thread.

Bruce Robinson played the object of Adele Hugo's obsession in Truffaut's The Story of Adele H

Wow r167. You really need to get a life. Doing ignoredar and pulling posts from other threads and then posting them in an attempt to "shame" that poster is really loserish and pathetic. And I only have one account. Your sock obsession is batshit. Well, you seem kind of batshit.

You seem unstable, R167.

Your name couldn't be Hortense, could it?

r170 I believe he has legit mental illness. He's been on DL for awhile and he's always been weird and creepy.

R16 Olivia's movements in that number are smooth and elegant, while Sally hunches over and flails her hands like they're semi-detached from her wrists.

And I won't even start on Sally's voice, which sounds like a horny toad screaming from its lily pad.

Hilarious!

Sally actually starred in musicals -Remember Breakfast At Tiffany's? Her voice was smoky and deep -but it was musical. Olivia, bless her, had to be dubbed for her numbers.

R173 They should've dubbed Sally, too.

How very DARE you!! I had a career as a chanteuse!

Like the R27 article says, why did they hire actors who couldn't sing or dance for a musical that had singing and dancing?

R167 your poison needs to act faster

Bruce Robinson wrote this scene. Based pervy Uncle Monty on his experience with Zefferilli.

R178 is not R85 who is not R124.

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Didi Conn and Matthew Lillard

[quote]The will both have “Romeo and Julia actor/actress“ in the headlines of their obituaries. Why taint best and most beautiful thing you have ever done with a lawsuit?

One might well ask whoever was responsible for taking unauthorized photos of naked underage actors on a film set why they would taint a moving and beautiful Shakespearean adaptation by profiting from the sale and distribution of those images, but since Olivia Hussey's lawsuit went nowhere I don't suppose we'll ever know the answer to that question, nor will we know why the filmmakers didn't do more to provide a secure working environment for two young people off of whom they made many millions of dollars. Olivia said she was paid only £1,500 after spending two years of her life making the film and promoting it.

Why Matthew Lillard, R180?

Julia!

[Quote] Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Didi Conn and Matthew Lillard

Eva Marie Saint and Joanne Woodward

The Olivia Hussey Collection a fan compilation on YouTube

Still no NY Times obit.

I'm surprised.

"Friendly doors open wide, come and share the peaceful life you will find inside. Share the joy"

Olivia was a follower of a tacky "guru" named Howard Wills, the poor mans Eckert Tolle.

So she was way deep into woo. Not the brightest bulb in the pack, but gloriously beautiful, when she was young, and she held up better than Leonard. At a fan meet and greet in 2016, he commented that she still looked the same, but he, uh, didn't.

He had a stroke in his 50s I believe - and yet another last year. Something like that. He's secretive about it.

R181 one might well ask you: Does being a pompous sanctimonious prisspot make up for being a bore?

[quote] nor will we know why the filmmakers didn't do more to provide a secure working environment for two young people off of whom they made many millions of dollars. Olivia said she was paid only £1,500 after spending two years of her life making the film and promoting it.

That's showbiz, baby. You gotta roll with the punches.

That nude scene was gorgeous and made complete sense for the movie. I’m sad that the young stars felt they were lied to and exploited.

R191 we're sad you're so thick & gullible

[quote]R169: Wow [R167]. You really need to get a life. Doing ignoredar and pulling posts from other threads and then posting them in an attempt to "shame" that poster is really loserish and pathetic. And I only have one account. Your sock obsession is batshit. Well, you seem kind of batshit.

Mmm-hmm. Repetitious responses, like from a bot. For instance, on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬... 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? thread, Reply 93:

[quote]I love the DL Hall monitors who have the time on their hands to trolldar people and cut and paste a bunch of quotes in an attempt to "shame" those posters. Such fucking losers.

From the 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐒 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, Reply 190 , though addressed to someone else besides me:

[quote]I love posters like you who trolldar and post quotes in an attempt to "shame" the poster who is their target. Grow the fuck up.

From 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬. Reply 207 (again, to someone else):

[quote]I love the posters who think they're "shaming" other posters by trolldaring them across threads. What a bunch of fucking losers.

Your opponent there told you the same thing that I have repeatedly had to tell you. It isn't to "shame" you - I don't believe you're capable of it - but to demonstrate to everyone else what you're actually like, and to show the pattern of your trolling, which links you to the other socks.

I refer to your account as '𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫,' because of the thread where your campaign of harassment first became apparent to me, when I started documenting you. Your output on 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 thread is as follows: R4, R29, R51, R112, R133, R139, R166, R169, and R171.

[quote]R169: And I only have one account.

Sorry, but you already blew that claim to hell by starting in on me on this thread with yet another sock, repeating the same tired material. That's what always gives you away. And you never learn from your mistakes.

The truly astounding output of that sock on this thread is as follows: R28, R31, R39, R43, R46, R54, R61, R68, R78, R80, R82, R85, R87 (where you started in on me), R88, R89, R93, R98, R100, R103, R104, R121, R128, R129, R130, R137, R138, R141, R142, R143, R144, R152, R153, R155, R163, R164, R165, R177, and R178.

That's 38 posts with one account, and your other socks replying to each other to keep the thread moving along.

The third sock output on this thread is as follows: R18, R20, R27, R119, R125, R136, R149, R150, R170, R172, R174, R176.

Between those three socks, your output on this thread is 59 posts - and those aren't even the only socks you're using; it's only the three you used to fuck with me. (Pro-Tip: Stop doing that. You have to know that I'll expose you if you do.) The rest are helping perpetuate the non-Olivia-Hussey posts about Zeffirelli, Leonard Whiting, other guys he's harassed, Tom Cruise, etc..

She was terrible in Black Christmas. Her voice was irritating.

R193 lithium OD?

R193. Apparently has the receipts.

R195, no, babe. I'm stone-cold sober. Zero psychological issues or meds.

You've rolled out that gif before. You really need to get some new material.

Why does this loon think he is the only crazy old queen who should be allowed to post here? It's not called The Russie Lounge.

She was so young looking a long time ago.

R197 you first Teacake🤣

GOOGLE : Psychological issues

Do you mean R197

R193 DL Nutter Hall of Fame. Quite the acomplishment for this asylum.

[quote]R198: Why does this loon think he is the only crazy old queen who should be allowed to post here? It's not called The Russie Lounge.

I've never said anything about posters being allowed or not allowed, ever. But organized trolling, dominating threads with sock accounts, gaming the reporting system, and harrassing other posters who aren't part of the troll brigade - those are the kinds of things other posters should be informed about.

[quote]R200: you first Teacake🤣

Well, isn't that adorable? I have to hand it to you - that's the first time on this thread you've made me laugh.

But by the criteria I've offered for how to identify sock accounts (by posting content, repeating phrases and insults), do I match the Teacake brigade/black cosplaying trollsocks in any way? One of the last times we clashed, I pointed out that AAVE was starting to creep into your posts (on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬... 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?, Reply 82), so you would probably be a better candidate for that than I.

R201, you've used that gif before, too.

She was so young looking before she got old.

fixed for profound R199

r204, no, she was so young looking a long time ago is the point.

Leonard never did speak publicly about any Zeffirelli sexual harassment like mothers have, just about never being informed that his and Olivia's nudity will be shown on the screen. They were both told that editing will be done discretely , which never was. However, I'm willing to bet some sexual harassment happened along the lines of what Bruce Robinson talked about. Both Leonard and Bruce were very pretty at the time, I doubt the lecherous Franco just focused his attention on Bruce.

Olivia was reluctant to appear nude on camera but did not feel able to say no. She said that Zeffirelli reassured her that no one would be able to see her breasts due to the way that the shots were set up, but if you've seen the movie this is obviously not true. Zeffirelli also repeatedly addressed her on set as 'Boobs O’Mina'. This sort of thing combined with Zeffirelli's abusive behavior towards Bruce Robinson casts a pall over a film I have always loved. You can read more about Olivia and her mixed feelings towards the film at the link.

R207

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Leonard never did speak publicly about any Zeffirelli sexual harassment like OTHERS have,

R207 Google DAILIES . Frau for brains.

Interview with Olivia in which she talks about the making of the film:

R207 still weeping over those sweet innocent Menendez bros?. Swallowing this tosh casts a pall over your IQ hun.

Holy fuck r193. I mean seriously. Get a life. Get some help. Whoa.

[quote] (Pro-Tip: Stop doing that. You have to know that I'll expose you if you do.)

Like you're a spy or something? I really don't care that you regurgitate my posts from previous threads. Cataloguing, numbering and apparently keeping a record of all the posters you have an axe to grind with is really something, though. Your post at r193 is insane. Like, mental illness insane. Seriously, I'm not joking or being snarky. You appear to be quite disturbed and it's concerning. I'm glad I don't know you IRL and I hope I don't live anywhere near you. Of all the weirdo trolls who have been on DL over the years you are one who is actually downright scary.

JFC.

On the nude scence Hussey says at 5:01 "We saw the rushes".

Sounds like a case of Sharon Stoneitis PTSD only 50 years after the fact making it more blatantly hilarious. If you're not a lumpen frau R207.

BTW r193 all of your "sock" shit is false. I only have one account. You've confused me with several other posters. Your paranoia is unreal.

I have to repeat, of all the trolls who've been on here you are the craziest, and that's really saying something for the nuthouse that is DL.

Lumpen.

The only experience you dolts have of how a production is actually cast and how a film shoot really works comes from reading captions in People magazine. Laughable.

Sometimes you have to suck a dick to get a part. That's the name of the game.

Are there any clips online where she's actually speaking in Spanish? I'd love to hear what she sounded like but I can't find any.

R206 "never did speak publicly about any Zeffirelli sexual harassmet like mothers have"

my sides🤣

R205 sorry, did not realize English was your second language.

"never did speak publicly about any Zeffirelli sexual harassmet like mothers have"

R206 probably she just whispered.

As late as 2018 Livy was proud of flashing her 15yo jubblies. What brought about the half century delayed trauma and shame?

Hussey discussed filming the controversial nude scene in Romeo and Juliet: "We shot it at the end of the film. So by that time...we've become one big family. It wasn't that big of a deal. And Leonard wasn't shy at all! In the middle of shooting I just completely forgot I didn't have clothes on."

In another 2018 interview with Variety, Hussey defended the nude scene, saying, "Nobody my age had done that before," adding that Zeffirelli shot it tastefully. "It was needed for the film. Everyone thinks they were so young they didn't realize what they were doing. But we were very aware. We both came from drama schools and when you work you take your work very seriously."

"What brought about the half century delayed trauma and shame?"

Just a hunch.

R218

^ repeatedly noted

Take your meds Klan Granny Troll

R227 triggered, did Golden Corral close early ?

What the fuck is wrong with you, R226. Have some fucking respect.

Here's Olivia speaking in Spanish, in some obscure Mexican film; her scene begins around 8:30. As expected, she had a heavily accented Spanish.

r226 has the best reply.

R229 what is wrong with you mein frau you are on a cocksuckers web site. Sure Livy & Lenny were quiet good at it.

Has momma’s mussy issued a statement?

Wow. Some of you have seriously lost your sanity.

From the article referenced at R72/ R73:

[quote]Despite the tragedy, Hussey decided to move into Cielo Drive regardless. She recalls making her morning coffee as the Manson family member Linda Kasabian showed police around the property, detailing the murder. “I could hear her say, ‘And that Abigail Folger was lying over there, and she had lots of stab wounds’,” she said. “People would say, ‘How could you live there?’ I’d say it was actually the safest house in Hollywood. There was a button under the desk in the living room that buzzed directly to the Beverly Hills police. When you walked in there, there were no bad vibes or anything. All I felt was the sweetness of Sharon. I never felt afraid.”

Huh. A rather odd little person.

R229 have some fucking respect

OMG !OMG ! has Bambi died? Steroid overdose? Toxic hair dye posioning? Choked on Kevitch's 8in schlong? DETAILS PLEEEZE!

R335 Livy had a rep for being wack. Part of the reason her career never took off.

She did have her moments.

Wedding bells rang for Dino Martin Jr. and Olivia Hussey on her birthday, April 17th, 1971 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. their fairy-tole romance began when Dino saw "Romeo and Juliet" and fell for Olivia. Dino's manager arranged for them to meet in London. they dated on and off for a year and steadily for the past year. Dino's parents attended the ceremony, but hers did not. They had a son, Alexander Gunther Martin (who became an actor), in 1973, before divorcing in 1978.

Their son Alexander Martin also an actor.

Dino Jr dumped the crazy hussy for America's sweetheart Dorothy Hamill then flew his fighter jet into a mountain. That's amore.

Alexander dosen't resemble either parent.

Olivia also had a part in the 1984 mini-series "The Last Days of Pompeii". It also starred DL fave Nicholas Clay (in ass-revealing clothes as usual) along with others like Franco Nero, Laurence Oliver, Ned Beatty, Ernest Borgnine, Lesley-Anne Down & Anthony Quayle.

Olivia had an affair with Franco Nero during the filming

As a horror fan, I’ve always loved her in Black Christmas, which I watched the other day as I do this time of year. Her performance in it is very shout-y which always makes me laugh, but she is great in it overall. I also love her in Death on the Nile, The Cat and the Canary, and as Norman Bates’s mother in the TV sequel Psycho: The Beginning.

For what it’s worth coming from a gay man, I’ve always thought she was one of the most beautiful women to have ever walked the earth. Just angelic looking. She radiated a kind of innocent beauty that you don’t see often. Her daughter is also beautiful.

[quote]For what it's worth coming from a gay man, I've always thought she was one of the most beautiful women to have ever walked the earth. Just angelic looking. She radiated a kind of innocent beauty that you don't see often.

We watched Romeo and Juliet in my ninth grade English class. While the other girls were besotted with Leonard Whiting I could not take my eyes off of Olivia. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. As Romeo puts it: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

Alexander Martin looks like a cookie sniffer in that photo with his mother.

R185 She had beautiful hair.

My theory is that she only went ahead with the lawsuit because she needed a lot of quick money to pay for big medical debts (perhaps even for experimental treatments since was big into the hippie, spiritual stuff) or to make sure she'd have something to leave behind for her family after she was gone.

Hussey worked again with Zeffirelli in Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Mary!

She played Mary!

Nobody asked for my update, but still.

As of yet, no NY Times obit on their digital page.

The obit staff must have taken the week off.

Or, has she been deemed not worthy of one?

Well? Hmmm?

Article about the recent lawsuit; see link. Unfortunately neither Hussey nor Whiting appeared to be good judges of character and ended up being exploited yet again by sleazebags.

[quote]r21 The film's costumes were inspired by traditional Tibetan dress, textiles, and embellishment. The film's patterns were also used in the Fall 1973 McCall's Carefree Home Catalog."

SEE the glamorous hippie patterns for the discerning home sewist HERE:

^ Half a century of victimhood and too thick ti have a learning curve. Actors indeed

Her son is hot

R255 her elder son is very handsome, though he really took after his dad much more than he did Olivia. Her daughter India is also stunning and looks much more like her, except with bigger eyes.

She does not look like her madre.

I was watching this trashy 70's horror film called The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackal on Tubi last night and I looked up the handsome wooden leading man Anthony Eisley and he was one of those Reagan Republicans who ended his career in schlock..but he was the father in law of Olivia Hussey and that's the weird way I discovered Olivia passed away.

Hussey also played Norman Bates’ mother in one of the PSYCHO movies.

I read she was agoraphobic for a time and that it kept her from acting.

She was an agoraphobic and it absolutely hindered her acting career.

her first marraiage was to Dean Martin's son Dean Paul Martin father of her oldest child

R261 is neither R9 nor R20.

R261 see R238/R239

It's called SCROLLING you dumb cunt.

She meditated in her dressing room during DEATH ON THE NILE, playing records of Hindu music (or something) constantly. The incessant chanting drove neighboring Bette Davis batty.

She was agoraphobic but OK with living in a notorious murder house? That’s kinda weird

Looking through her photos, I wonder if the poster for ENDLESS LOVE (stars in profile against a linen sheet) was inspired by this shot in ROMEO & JULIET. Both were directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Maestro Zefferelli was a "hands on" director.

DEAR JESUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!! These CHILDREN are clearly being RAPED before your eyes. YOU SICK PEDOS will BURN IN HELL ! along with your WHOP PREDATOR HOMO hero.But I will still pray for you. YOU'RE WELCOME FILTH.

At long last come the NYT obituary…

In the end Olivia seemed she had found peace:

For better or worse, she wished the lawsuit were done with. “It’s in God’s hands now,” she said. “It’s all in God’s hands in the end.” Even if it failed, she said, she’d be okay. “Most people on their deathbeds, even the most evil people, have to say, What have I done? And what was wrong? And what did I do right? I’m not afraid to die because I’m not scared of my reckoning.” She’d made her share of mistakes, and sometimes she wondered whether filing the lawsuit was one of them. But she could live with that. “Nobody’s perfect,” she said. “If we were perfect, there’d be no need for all this charade, this illusion that we call life. If we were perfect, we’d all be angels.”

^ She certainly had the face of one.

Thank you, r270.

Somebody finally woke-up at the NY Times headquarters cubicle farm or their home cubicle, scratched their head, and realized they were way overdue....

Forgive my ignorance but why is the NY Times obituary so important? Is someone not really dead until NYT says they are?

They probably didn't have more than a basic draft on her bio, so they had to do research to build up a proper obituary. This is typical for those who are not know to be seriously ill or very old.

Agoraphobia was the phobia du jour in the 1970s.

About NYT, they probably take more time off the week of Christmas than usual, thus the late obit. And she wasn't really an A-lister. B? Maybe - because of one film 56 years ago, when she was 15 years old.

[quote] Forgive my ignorance but why is the NY Times obituary so important? Is someone not really dead until NYT says they are?

It's not, r274, to the sane.

Long-time NY Times subscribers/obsessives like me and a few others here can be bitchy about its daily content, or lack thereof.

Still, I maintain that they were unusually late with posting an OH obit.

They were busy …duh.

She now has a worthy obit. Be sated with that.

R275. No, that’s not how it works. She was ill several years ago—the obit was already written. Jimmy Carter’s obit was written by a guy who’s been dead for several years. The “delay” was due to the holiday and the fact that several better-known folks dropped at the same time.

It must be frustrating for actors to be mainly identified with one role, even if that role made them a star

There are worse things than being considered by most as the “definitive” Juliet of the modern—visual—age. I’ll infer she was OK with that.

R280 Journalism is a 24/7 business. It doesn't stop for the holidays.

I am convinced that no one ever truly "beats" cancer. It always comes back and even worse when it does.

R283 doesn’t read the online NYT 😵‍💫

I found out recently googling my mom’s name that her engagement was announced in the New York Times. She didn’t know. It must have been a slow news day, and they picked it up from a Boston paper.

It’s kind of mysterious.

R248's guess is pretty much correct.

R271's quote is from a Vulture article from last September about why the lawsuit against Paramount was filed.

Olivia was bankrupt (she had just filed for the second time), $22,000 in debt, and sick. She and Whiting were paid very little for Romeo & Juliet (Paramount wanted to charge her $10,000 to use a photo of herself as Juliet on the cover of her own autobiography), and she wanted a payday.

Poor Olivia's been upstaged by Linda Lavin.

Seems to me that Olivia would have done well on the convention circuit. Maybe that wasn't an option due to her health.

That Vulture article paints a grim picture. Lawsuits are extremely stressful even when you have competent legal representation. If Olivia had had a decent lawyer she might have ended up with a little money which she surely could have used towards the end of her life.

People only objected to the lawsuit because they still love the film. If it had been some shlock horror that showed a 15 year old’s tits and 17 year old ass without permission, they’d have the public’s sympathy

This bitch was secondary to the TRUE BEAUTY in my film.

[quote]Still, I maintain that they were unusually late with posting an OH obit.

R278, valid point, Della.

And it's noticeable how little coverage Olivia Hussey's death received compared to Maggie Smith's.

Maggie Smith and Olivia Hussey had very different careers.

^ Maggie had a career. Stage, film and television.

And Maggie didn’t appear in “Lost Horizon.”

[quote]And it's noticeable how little coverage Olivia Hussey's death received compared to Maggie Smith's.

Well, yeah, but for reasons.

Olivia was a C-list curio whose single big contribution to pop culture was 50 years ago. The rest of her output was B-movies.

Maggie was one of the best actresses of stage and screen who had a whole new fanbase because of Downton.

The pacing of the obituaries was understandable. Olivia wouldn't have gotten one in the pre-SEO days.

She was going to do the fan made sequel of Black Christmas (It’s Me, Billy), which was exceptionally made, reprising her final girl role. She didn’t seem to have much ambition as she surely had the looks, name, and enough talent to have made a huge career.

Margot Kidder says that Hussey was obsessed with Paul McCartney and wanted to marry him. And she consulted a psychic about everything.

R299 That psychic told her to do a horror film that would be offered her and it would be a great career move. And it was.

Honestly…. she sounds kind of like a dingbat. Poor thing.

Still no mention of her star turn as the Jewess Rebecca of York in *Ivanhoe* (1982)? (Or maybe it was mentioned in one of the many posts here by someone I've blocked.) She was suitably pathetic. Her father was played by James Mason.

R297 That lawyer sounded like a sleazeball to me. It sounded like the idea for the lawsuit mostly came from him. From that article it seemed like he caught Olivia at a desperate time in her life and tried to take advantage of her for fame and money. I like Olivia Hussey, but would an Olivia Hussey perfume and jewelry line really have been successful? I feel like he was just trying to blow smoke up her ass so he could keep her involved in this lawsuit swindle and get rich off it.

R301 Many say she was kind to a fault and was taken advantage of because of it.

R303 there were a few of these has-beens trying to squeeze out some cash before the time limit on the "child explotation" bill that waived the statute of limitations expired. Hussey & Whiting filed just 24hrs before deadline. Pretty obvious. Remember this poor "victim" ? Laughable

Olivia being interviewed as she drinks orange juice and smokes.

So gross that she smoked.

R307 It was 1968. Everyone smoked back then.

[quote]R303 I like Olivia Hussey, but would an Olivia Hussey perfume and jewelry line really have been successful?

Properly developed and marketed, a perfume called [italic]Juliet[/italic] with her picture on the label could become a classic.

R307 she was extremely nervous about her weight, since Zeffirelli et al had made her feel like a heifer

What a damn hussy

Maybe “Little Juliet” diet pills would have been an effective product, marketed to teen girls?

Who doesn’t like a dash of speed.

[quote]she was extremely nervous about her weight, since Zeffirelli et al had made her feel like a heifer

She should have been nervous. She WAS overweight, especially for the time.

Zeffirelli could have fired her and replaced her with one of the 2,000 wannabes, and then she wouldn't have had to worry about being so victimized — she would have ended up a cashier at Woolworths.

[quote]She should have been nervous. She WAS overweight, especially for the time.

Olivia said that she weighed 100 pounds during the filming of Romeo and Juliet.

She was tiny with puppy fat and boobs. She was supposed To be a renaissance beauty, not Twiggy

R306 Of course, they have to make Olivia's nudity a primary topic. Notice how they ask her about being nude, but not Leonard.

That's a nice tush at r110.

R309 If Paramount allowed it. They wanted to charge her $10,000 to use a still of herself on the cover of her autobiography.

Is r318 also r287?

She wasn't a better Juliet than moi!

R318 Google : CONTRACT

R321 GOOGLE: Adhesion contract!

I’ve got a run-of-the-play contract!

Great name..