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The 1960s starlet, immortalized on the silver screen as Juliet, tells her story in this celebrity biography—with a forward by director Franco Zeffirelli.In 1968, sixteen-year-old Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's classic film Romeo & Juliet. For a simple girl from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the role was an opportunity of a lifetime. But for Olivia, the role of movie star wasn't so easy to play.In this candid memoir, Hussey tells her story from her time as an “It Girl” in swinging 60s London through her three tumultuous marriages—including one with Dean Martin's son, Dino. Over the years, she experienced motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment.Hussey shares intimate memories of the legendary performers she knew, loved, worked with, and battled, including The Beatles, Vanessa Redgrave, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Anthony Perkins, Christopher Reeve, Lawrence Olivier, Ingrid Bergman, and more. Olivia also opens up for the first time about the trauma of being raped by her boyfriend just a year after Romeo & Juliet came out.

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Olivia Hussey, by her own admission, has not managed her career well. All too often, she went through periods where she simply didn’t care about working or not. Her biggest success, as most know, was as Juliet in the film Romeo and Juliet. In the autobiography The Girl on the Balcony, she milks that memory for everything it’s worth. She devotes almost a hundred pages to this experience. And rightly so, not only because it was her initial triumph but also because it was a life-changing experience for her, and we want to go on that journey with her. The rest of her career, spanning more than forty years, has not been as stellar. There have been some successes and some duds. Her life, too, can be described in that way. Married three times, she makes it clear that she loved—and still loves—her first two husbands dearly, but the final marriage is the one that succeeded, having lasted almost thirty years. I saw this book, and although I’ve wondered over the years what she accomplished post-Juliet, her relative anonymity didn’t make her stay on my mind. But when I read the blurb, I thought this sounded like an interesting examination of a woman who never quite achieved stardom, despite her impact at age fifteen in Romeo and Juliet. I have to say I found her life not fascinating but interest-capturing. She writes well (with the help of a co-writer) but at times I felt her language a bit too flowery, her delivery a bit stilted. That may just be the British in her. She devotes several pages each to her favorite and more successful films, and those memories are enlightening and enjoyable. I was disappointed that she devotes less than a page to the blockbuster musical flop Lost Horizon, letting us know that it is considered the tenth biggest financial disaster in Hollywood history. Despite that, I find the movie horribly entertaining, and I would have liked to have heard more of her experiences making the film and her interplay with her co-stars, particularly with Liv Ullman, for whom I’ve had a life-long passion. So in that respect, I found the book disappointing. I also think Hussey was too trusting, which she freely admits, as she depicts a life of financial and relationship problems. But I was also heartened to hear of her plunge into meditation and her complete adoration of Swami Muktananda. Having tried and failed to master transcendental meditation, I was heartened that she not only succeeded but benefitted from it immensely. Her complete devotion to the practice and her guru leads her to reveal episodes where the guru seems to be able to predict the future—which I am skeptical about—but if the practice has brought her peace, I am all for it. In short, The Girl on the Balcony is a tale of a woman whose career peaked at a very early age, leaving her to a life that severely needed sorting out. I’m happy to say she seems to have completed that sorting and is happy today. This is a departure from Hollywood memoirs in that it is not a superstar relating the inevitable “and then I made…” stories, but it is enjoyable and instructive nonetheless.

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