[A champion gymnast at North Hollywood High and an acrobatic dancer in 1954`s] Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, ... Story.

Life is so strange. `West Side Story` was one of the high points of my career. Yet when I first saw it I was really disappointed in how I came off. Since then Fred Astaire has told me how much he admired my dancing in it. Now I see it very differently.

On his performance as "Riff" in "West Side Story": "Life is so strange. `West Side Story` was one of the high points of my career. Yet when I first saw it I was really disappointed in how I came off. Since then Fred Astaire has told me how much he admired my dancing in it. Now I see it very differently."