Natalie Wood STUNK in this film!

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barryfleckmann — 12 years ago(June 11, 2013 05:41 AM)

"I thought she (Natalie Wood) carried the part of Maria off quite well."
So did I, but NOT as well as Carol Lawrence did on Broadway. Natalie just had a bigger name, is all.
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barryfleckmann — 12 years ago(June 17, 2013 05:35 AM)

"I never saw the original Broadway stage production of "West Side Story" that had Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert in it"
Well, THAT makes two of us! I was TOO young! I missed Carol Lawrence in "West Side Story," Julie Andrews in "Camelot" and "My Fair Lady" and Mary Martin in "South Pacific." Whatever happened to American musical theatre?
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yusef-ghanima — 12 years ago(October 19, 2013 04:35 PM)

the whole movie stinks

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MikePaul854 — 12 years ago(November 28, 2013 12:28 PM)

She was better than Al Pacino's over the top performance in the vastly overrated Scarface.

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belgol5671 — 12 years ago(January 25, 2014 08:53 PM)

Yes Rita Moreno was terrific and won an Oscar, but it was Natalie that had the emotional power that made me cry. As wonderful a movie that WSS is, it's also almost too sad to watch.

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rumipoet24 — 12 years ago(January 25, 2014 10:35 PM)

hired more for her fresh looks and right off Splendor in the Grass, she was a litle affected in this & self conscious, it was a great polished effort but yes Rita srtole the show.

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DamianGein — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 01:05 PM)

I liked her performance for the most part but it was pretty uneven at times.
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HansWind — 12 years ago(March 10, 2014 07:53 PM)

Natalie Wood is
PERFECT
. In anything. Period.

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friendoffilm — 11 years ago(April 05, 2014 04:24 AM)

To each their own, but I kind of
liked
Natalie Wood in the film version of
West Side Story
. I thought she did okay as Maria. As for Richard Beymer, wellgiven the fact that the Beymer-bashing really has gotten out of hand in some circles, I'm more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt than I previously was. Imho, directorial constraints put on him by Robert Wise, the way in which both the scripts for the original Broadway stage versions and the film versions of
West Side Story
had been written, and the fact that Natalie Wood showed such open hostility and resentment towards him during the filming of WSS (Natalie Wood actually
did
attempt to get Richard Beymer kicked off the set on several occasions!) all hampered him from playing an even stronger Tony with a bit more of an "edge".
As for George Chakiris's role as the Shark gangleader, Bernardo, I thought he was excellent and did a fabulous job playing Bernardo, and he wasn't effeminate at all, imho.

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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 11 years ago(January 03, 2015 11:26 AM)

I wouldn't say Wood "stunk," but she was wooden and didn't really do anything special with the role and was miscast.
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Yort14 — 11 years ago(March 07, 2015 09:25 PM)

I've always thought that Natalie Wood was very good in a thankless role. The music,the dancing,the set design are all great, but in "West Side Story",Natalie Wood lingers in my memory.
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