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Olivia Hussey’s Juliet is energetic, hurtling across the church floor into Leonard Whiting’s arms in a cloud of lilac silk, and darting around the balcony with all the exultation of requited first love. She is the happiest Juliet on film. In Paramount’s promotional reel for the film, Olivia is shown window-shopping for underwear in Carnaby Street’s boutiques and bopping to the latest dances; an official profile verified that she ‘loves dancing and music, approves of mini-skirts and loves mod clothes.’ She is presented as a wholesome, hyper-feminine starlet who wears 'no make-up except for mascara and has always worn her hair long.’

Olivia’s identification with the character was passionate and absolute: ’I feel very close to Juliet, and I understand all her motives and feelings. I would be able to kill myself for love.’ These Interview quotes stress a dreamy, adolescent instability: 'I do daydream a lot. Sometimes I laugh and then the next minute I’m in tears - and I don’t know why.’ Kissing in her school uniform but coveting thigh-high boots, Olivia Hussey was the dimpled, laughing it girl for 1968.
- SEARCHING FOR JULIET, SOPHIE DUNCAN