At 91-years-young, George Chakiris charts his journey from dancer to Academy Award winner for his role in the celebrated musical West Side Story. The now silver fox opens up about the rumoured feud between two of his co-stars, plus the triple threat – dancer, actor and singer – reveals what he thinks about the recent West Side Story remake. The youthful nonagenarian also dishes on what it was really like to work alongside the legendary Marilyn Monroe and with Shirley Jones on The Partridge Family.

Timecodes
00:00 Start
01:09 Landing a role in a Katharine Hepburn film
02:19 Elizabeth Taylor
03:27 Marilyn Monroe
07:11 Brigadoon
08:11 Debbie Reynolds
08:42 White Christmas
10:32 West Side Story
11:17 Natalie Wood
16:11 Wardrobe malfunction
17:37 Rita Moreno
19:04 Winning his Oscar
22:02 The new West Side Story
23:10 Lana Turner
24:50 Dallas
27:35 Writing his memoir
29:19 Creating his jewellery collection
30:29 The Partridge Family and Shirley Jones