Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

Robert Wise was born in Indiana in 1914 and joined a Hollywood studio in 1933, where he became an editor and received an Oscar nomination for editing; he moved into directing and made some forty films in almost every genre. Jerome Robbins was born in New York in 1918 into a Jewish family from Eastern Europe; associate artistic director and then ballet master of the New York City Ballet, he had conceived, directed and choreographed the original production of the work on Broadway in 1957. Wise died in 2005, Robbins in 1998.

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• CinemaWest Side StoryRobert Wise and Jerome Robbins · 1961Cinema