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 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,