- Natalie Wood, West Side Story, 1961. “When transposing a successful Broadway show to the screen, you can’t please everybody,” declared producer Walter Mirisch. “If you use the cast of the original, your’e criticized If you don’t, you’re criticised. I’ve done it both ways.” This time, he felt Carol and her stage Tony, Larry Kert, “were both too old by then to repeat their roles.”
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