A scene from West Side Story 1961
Anita

I mind your nose and your head broken...Sure. They used Maria as an excuse to start World War III.

Bernardo

It is more than that.

Anita

More than what? She was only dancing.

Bernardo

With an American. He was really a Pollack.

Anita

Says the Spic.

Bernardo

You are not so cute.

Rosalia

That Tony is.

Consuelo

And he works.

Chino

As a delivery boy.

Anita

And what are you?

Chino

An assistant.

Bernardo

Si. And Chino makes half of what the Pollack makes.

Anita

Oh, here comes the whole commercial. 'Your mother's a Pole. Your father's a Swede. But you were born here. That's all that you need. You are an American.' When I think of how I thought it would be for us here, we came like children, believing, trusting.

In this scene

Rosalia Suzie Kaye
Consuelo Yvonne Wilder

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