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Beymer played Tony, the male lead in 1961's West Side Story, who falls in love with Maria after their first encounter. Prior to the musical film, he appeared in 1959's The Diary of Anne Frank.
As the day progresses, Tony, Maria, Anita, Bernardo and the Sharks, and Riff and the Jets anticipate the coming nights' events (“Tonight Quintet and Chorus”).
Ultimately, Richard Beymer won the part of Tony. Natalie Wood was filming Splendor in the Grass with Warren Beatty and was involved with him romantically off-screen. The producers were not considering her for the role of Maria at that time.
white Americans. Two rival teenage gangs, the Jets (white Americans) and the Sharks (Puerto Ricans), struggle for control of their neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (Prologue).);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(oLPFZpKRHuyPwPAPzLWz-Aw__169,