Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was born on Oct 11, 1918 in USA. Jerome Robbins's big-screen debut came with On the Town directed by Stanley Donen in 1949. Jerome Robbins is known for West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg, Ansel Elgort stars as Tony and Rachel Zegler as María. Jerome Robbins has got 5 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Jerome Robbins achieved is The Kennedy Center Honors. The upcoming new movie Jerome Robbins plays is West Side Story which will be released on Dec 10, 2021.

Jerome Robbins was one of the founding members of the Ballet Theatre when it was formed in 1940 portraying a variety of roles for several years before devising his own creations such as 'Fancy Free' about 3 sailors on leave in New York which marked a long association with Leonard Bernstein. With Jerome in one of the leading roles it opened at the Metropolitan Opera House in April 1944 and quickly established Jerome and Leonard as important talents particularly when the play was turned into the film'On the Town' Among ballets Jerome staged for the New York City Ballet, of which he became company director are 'Pied Piper','The Cage',and 'Inter Play'. In 1958 he formed his own company 'Ballets: USA which did tours of Europe and the Middle East, New York and a national tour. Several members of the company were in the film West Side Story which Jerome staged fir Broadway, the National Company and London.