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Title: West Side Story


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West Side Story
  • Oscar Ozuna
  • Period 6

2
West Side Story?
  • Genre musical,drama, and romance
  • Released October 8,1961 by United Artists
  • Won 10 Oscars
  • Most Oscars any musical had ever gotten
  • Directed and produced by, Jerome Robbins and
    Robert Wise
  • Written by Arthur Laurent
  • Music by Leonard Berstein

3
The Actors/Characters
  • MainActors
  • Natalie Wood as Maria
  • Richard Beymer as Tony
  • Other important actors
  • Rita Moreno Anita
  • Russ Tamblyn Riff
  • George Chakiris Bernardo
  • Simon Oakland Lieutenant Schrank
  • Tony MordenteAction
  • Eliot FeldBaby John

4
The Story
  • Two gangs from New Yorkthe Jets and the Sharks
    battle for territory and respect.
  • Well the two gangs are fight Former Jets leader
    Tony, and Maria, the sister of Bernardo the
    shark's leader. Are secretly going out together.

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Natalie Wood
  • Born on July 20,1938 in San Francisco, California
  • Died on November 29,1981
  • At age 43 she drowned while in there yacht at the
    Catalina Island
  • Real name is Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
  • Parents are Russian, their names are Nikolai and
    Maria Zakharenko
  • Only 4 when first movie Happy Land

Natalie Wood
6
Richard Beymer
  • Born ON February 21, 1939 in Avoca, Iowa
  • Began acting career in 1949 in television
  • In 1953 hi first film as an actor, "Indiscretion
    of an American Wife"
  • Beymer left Hollywood in 1963 to try the
    directing business filming documentaries.
  • He made a documentary movie about the civil
    right movement in the 60s

Richard Beymer
7
Robert Wise
  • Born on September 10,1914 in Winchester, Indiana
  • Died on September 14,2005 in Los Angeles,
    California (heart failure)
  • Started movie career at RKO(Radio-Keith-Orpheum
    pictures) as a sound and music editor
  • Directed first Star Trek Movie

Robert Wise
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Credits
  • http//www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
  • www.filmposter.com
  • http//www.rottentomatoes.com/m/west_side_story/
  • http//deni.typepad.com/the_beautiful_life/2004/05
    /west_side_story.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beymer
  • http//movies.yahoo.com/shop?dhcid1800052050cf
    biogintlus
  • http//www.imdb.com/name/nm0936404/
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