Maria (West Side Story) after he meets and kisses Maria for the first time. Her name is sung 29 times in total. Natalie Wood was not the first choice to play Maria in the 1961 film version. Audrey Hepburn was considered, but she did not take it due to her pregnancy. Like Wood, Hepburn was not Puerto Rican; she was British, Dutch, and Austrian. Oh Maria, Maria / She remind me of a West Side story. Maria (West Side Story) Maria is the leading female character in the film "West Side Story". Maria is in her late teens when she arrives on the US
Robert P. Wagner Project. Wagner met and married his wife Margaret in 1947 while in Pasadena, California to work at Caltech. The couple had three children. Wagner died on March 3, 2004. His papers are held by the University of Texas at Austin. Robert P. Wagner Robert Philip Wagner (1918-2004) was an American professor of genetics who spent most of his academic career at the University of Texas at Austin. After retiring from UT, he served as a long-term consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He wrote a number of key textbooks in genetics and was known as an enthusiastic early proponent