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Which actors played the leading roles in West Side Story?
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Robert Wise
Robert Wise.
In the 1961 film West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, the leading roles of Tony and Maria were played by Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood, respectively.1