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
Robert F. Wagner got the first honorary citizenship of Nastaetten, his town of birth. 1961 his son Robert Wagner Jr. was also named honorary citizen of Nastaetten. In the 1930s, Wagner dated Marguerite Young. He died on May 4, 1953, in New York City, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Queens. His son Robert F. Wagner Jr. was Mayor of New York City from 1954 to 1965. On September 14, 2004, a portrait of Wagner, along with one of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, was unveiled in the Senate Reception Room. The new portraits joined a group of distinguished former Senators, including Henry Clay,