WEST SIDE STORY
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ANSWER TO
QUESTION FOUR
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bonus question

In the original stage script, the title of
a well-known show tune (not a song from
West Side Story) is mentioned -- though
slightly altered -- along with
a brief line or two of lyrics, also
paraphrased (and spoken, not sung).

Name that tune and the show
from whose score it originated.

Repeat:  This reference DOES NOT
appear in the film.
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Outside the candy store, Graziella refers to Anybodys as "An
American Tragedy."  This book by Theodore Dreiser was made
into at least two motion pictures, most notably by
George Stevens in 1951 under the title A Place in the Sun and
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters. 

Just prior to this, when Riff asks about Tony, Action
refers to him as "The Invisible Man," the title of a book by
H.G. Wells that was the source of a string of motion
pictures, starting with James Whale's 1933 masterpiece
in which Claude Rains appears (and disappears). 

The wisecrack about Tony's absence was written for the film; Graziella's put-down was in the original stage work.

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