Mordente directed dozens of TV shows, including "Family Ties," "Walker, Texas Ranger," and "7th Heaven." Tony Mordente, who was part of the cast in the original stage show of West Side Story, as well ...

West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs--the white Jets led by Riff and the ...

This brilliant (The New Republic) film sets the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and scripted by ...

“West Side Story” became one of the biggest Broadway musicals of all time. And by 1961, the film ... classic of the musical form — even as it cast ethnically white actors to play Latino ...