They ended up in an elevator alone together after what Elgort deemed a failed recording session on his part, when Sondheim turned to him and said, "'The most important thing a young performer can have is confidence.'" The native New Yorker also recalled Stephen Sondheim's advice when the show's legendary lyricist, who just died Nov. He continued to act in quirky films ("I never left the movies, I just made different kinds of movies," he told the Times) and on TV, and another devoted fan base knows him as Ben Horne on Twin Peaks.Įlgort said on The Late Late Show With James Corden that he'd wanted to be a performer ever since his parents took him to see Oklahoma on Broadway when he was 4. Talking to the Los Angeles Times decades later, Beymer said he thought he "came out ridiculous" in West Side Story and, despite a few more plum roles in big pictures, he had soured on Hollywood by the mid-1960s and turned his attention to civil rights activism in the South. "But that's good, anything that's a challenge is good, right? It's worth it."īeymer-who started out as a child actor on TV in the 1940s-co-starred in 1959's The Diary of Anne Frank before landing the role of Tony, which led to him sharing the 1962 Golden Globe for New Star of the Year with Bobby Darin and Warren Beatty (who also had a doomed onscreen romance with Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass, another 1961 release). "The songs are great, even though I couldn't sing them perfectly right away," Elgort admitted during a Nov. United Artists/Kobal/Shutterstock Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox Richard Beymer/Ansel Elgort as TonyĮlgort does his own singing as the boy who just met a girl named Maria, unlike his predecessor, whose vocals were supplied by crooner Jimmy Bryant-a fairly standard bit of movie magic when the studio's desired face didn't match the necessary pipes.
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