West Side Story (film) Brittany Snow and Drake Bell. West Side Story (film) West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was photographed by Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C., in Super Panavision 70. Released on October 18, 1961, through United Artists, the film received high praise from critics and viewers, and became the second highest
Wild Side Story of "Wild Side Story" had been registered with the Writers Guild of America West by Jacob and business partner Richard Max Mersky of Mimical Productions, and in California they called their show a "mimical lampoon". A young was their stage manager. Until 2004 the show was performed more than 500 times in Florida, Stockholm, Los Angeles and Spain, since 1997 called a "mimical humoresque". On its 40th anniversary in 2013 the whole "Wild Side Story" was played twice again in a 17th-century cellar cave dedicated to Michelangelo's "David" in the Old Town of Stockholm. In the beginning all the songs