“He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be.” (Franco Zeffirelli on why he chose Leonard Whiting to be Romeo in Romeo and Juliet)

“He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be.” (Franco Zeffirelli on why he chose Leonard Whiting to be Romeo in Romeo and Juliet)

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