70mm Print! WEST SIDE STORY, 1961 May 25, 2012

Friday, May 25 – 7:30 PM
70mm Print! WEST SIDE STORY, 1961, MGM Repertory, 151 min. The classic musical, co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, with Natalie Wood as the lovely Maria and Richard Beymer as her star-crossed lover, Tony, surrounded by switchblade-carrying gangs led by Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris. Leonard Bernstein's soaring, instantly memorable score, with lyrics by a young Stephen Sondheim, stands as one of the finest ever written for the American musical theater. [70mm]Producer and poster designer Mike Kaplan will introduce the program by showing some images from “Gotta Dance: The Art of the Dance Film Poster,” a major exhibit of his vintage movie poster collection, on view May 17 - September 23 at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica.

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