Olivia (1983)

Anecdotes

Olivia is a 1983 American psychological thriller film directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Suzanna Love and Robert Walker Jr. It follows a young wife in London who is suffering from homicidal schizophrenia, stemming from having witnessed her prostitute mother's murder. She meets an American engineer and has a brief but heated romance with him, and, several years later in Arizona, he encounters a woman who resembles her but claims not to remember him.

Production

Lommel and Love devised the idea for Olivia while intending to produce a sequel to The Boogeyman (1980). John P. Marsh, who met Lommel at a party in Santa Monica, California, originally co-wrote a screenplay for a sequel to Boogeyman II.

Lommel, fascinated by the bridge, asked Marsh to help write a screenplay centered around it. Marsh based the screenplay on Streamline Duchess, a short film he had written in college about a woman living in Eureka, California, who becomes drawn into a life of prostitution after watching local prostitutes congregate at a motel across the street from her home. Marsh had based this film on a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Principal photography of Olivia took place in both the United States and England, with the London-set exteriors being filmed on location, as well as the Lake Havasu-set exteriors being filmed on location in Arizona. During the shoot, the film had the working title Faces of Fear.

The majority of the interior sequences were filmed in Los Angeles, many inside Lommel's home. The interior of Olivia's London residence was shot in a Los Angeles apartment that the crew had rented for one day. According to co-writer and assistant director John P. Marsh, many sequences in the film—largely the interiors—were completed after filming had officially wrapped, as the production had recurrently run out of funding.

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