On the Town,
directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen/Lennie Hayton,
music director(MGM, 1949). Color 16mm, videotape & laser videodisc
available from MGM/United Artists. 98'.
Used only four Bernstein numbers: "I Feel Like I'm Not Out Of Bed Yet/New
York, New York" (adapted)/"Miss Turnstiles Dance" (adapted)/"Come Up To My
Place"/"A Day in New York Ballet" (adapted from Times Square Ballet, Lonely
Town Pas De Deux & Imaginary Coney Island). All other music was not by
Bernstein.
On The Waterfront,
directed by Elia Kazan (Columbia, 1964). Black &
white 16mm available from Films, Inc. Videotape available from RCA/Columbia
Pictures. 108'. Background score by Bernstein. Morris Stoloff, Music
Director.
West Side Story,
directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise/Johnny
Green, music director (United Artists, 1961). Voted "Best Picture of the Year",
earned 10 Oscars, 1961.
Color 16mm, videotape and laser videodisc available from MGM/United Artists.
162'. Laserdisc taken directly off a 65MM print and supervised by
co-director Robert Wise.
OTHER FILMS
Reflections,
produced by Peter Rosen for US International Communications
Agency, a film exploring LB's career. Not available in USA. Elsewhere in the
world, available through US embassies.
Journey to Jerusalem (1967),
directed by Michael Mindlin, with Jennie
Tourel/Natania Devrath/Isaac Stern/Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir/LB conducting
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, after the Six Day
War. Distributed by Orion Films.
There have been numerous uses of LB music in documentary and feature film
soundtracks. A large portion of Fancy Free is heard in Rear
Window (Hitchcock).