3. Natalie Wood almost didn’t take the role
At first Natalie Wood wasn’t available to take the role of Maria because she had previously committed to Parrish for Warner Brothers. So what she did was fake a case of tonsillitis which worked…until she got a real case of pneumonia that almost caused her to lose the West Side Story Role as well. However, she managed to recover and star in the film.
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