Carole D’Andrea, who portrayed Velma, the Jet girl, in the original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story and the iconic 1961 film adaptation, has passed away at the age of 87. According ...

The venerable actress returned to the silver screen last December in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of "West Side Story," the same story that made her famous more than 60 years ago. Moreno's ...

More than 60 years since its world premiere, “West Side Story” remains one of the most ... who conducted the score for last year’s film remake directed by Stephen Spielberg (the original ...

(The 20-year-old performer is dating her “West Side Story” co-star Josh Andrés Rivera.) As noted by Variety, film studios with best-picture nominees are allotted an “undefined” number of ...

The opening of “West Side Story,” both the 1961 and 2021 films, is not a song or a dialogue scene or even a traditional overture; it’s a dance. And it’s not just a dance — it’s a ...

Now, half a century later, Spielberg proves he had something else to say about West Side Story by making a film which reprised the awe and youthful exuberance of his earliest blockbusters.

In almost every West Side Story iteration, including the 1957 stage debut and 1961 film version, Anybodys is written and performed as a tomboy who wants to join the Jets. In Spielberg’s ...

West Side Story is the finger-snapping, Romeo and Juliet-inspired, urban Americana story of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria set in 1950s New York. The West Side Story plot has won awards both ...

(RNS) — 'West Side Story' has a back story — and it is not ... But there is another Jewish presence in the film — who never appears in the film. Or, let me make that “Jew-ish.” ...