In screen, Robbins recreated his stage dances for The King and I (1956) and shared a Better Director Oscar with Robert Wise for the film version of West Side Story (1961). That equivalent month, a Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with the favorite award for his choreographic accomplishment in film.

a boy of a stays manufacturer, the New York City-born Robbins began college at New York University (NYU), but dropped out when a year to pursue dance. He exposed ballet sustaining Ella Daganova, Anthony Tudor and Eugene Loring, modern dance at the New Dance League and Spanish dancing sustaining a notable Helen Veola.

By 1939, he was dancing in the chorus of such Broadway shows as Great Lady, The Straw Hat Revue and Keep of the Grass. Robbins was too dancing & choreographing at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. However within 1940, he turned his back (albeit temporarily) on a theater and joined a Ballet Theatre (late called the American Ballet Theatre). From either 1941–44, Robbins was a soloist using a company, gaining notice for his Hermes in Helen of Troy, the Moor inside Petrouchka and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet.

At a equivalent instance, Broadway dance was changing. Agnes de Mille had brought not good ballet to Oklahoma, but experienced manufactured dance an integral a portion of the drama of the musical piece. Challenged, Robbins choreographed & performed around Fancy Free, a ballet just about sailors at liberty, at a Metropolitan Opera as part of the Ballet Theatre season within 1944.

Late that season, he choreographed & created On the Town, a musical comedy according to a ballet, which profits launched his Broadway career as a dance director. His foremost assignment was Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and 2 years late he won his number 1 Tony Award for choreographing Nanette Fabray and Phil Silvers in High Button Shoes.

When you took this cycle, Robbins continued to produce dances for the Ballet Theatre, alternating between them for the better section of the next deuce decades. Barely the year went by while forgoing the freshly Robbins ballet & a fresh musical theater choreographed by Robbins. Using George Balanchine he choreographed Jones Beach at the City Center Theatre in 1950, & directed and choreographed Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, starring Ethel Merman.

Around 1951, Robbins created the now celebrated dance sequences within Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King & I (including the children's ballet, The Small House of Uncle Thomas and the celebrated Shall We Dance? waltz between them leads). That equivalent season, he created The Cage for the New York City Ballet, with which he was nowadays associated. Robbins collaborated using George Abbott on The Pajama Game (1954), which launched the career of Shirley MacLaine, worked on the 1955 Mary Martin vehicle, Peter Pan (recreated for the small screen inside 1955, 1956 and 1960) & directed and co-choreographed (by having Bob Fosse) Bells Are Ringing (1956), starring Judy Holliday. Inside 1957, he was involved using the indicate that a few sense is one of his crowning accomplishment: West Side Story.

By having its exuberant ballets & lively dances placed inside & around NYC's of Hells Kitchen, West Side Story is now hailed as a classic. However around its instance, it was overshadowed by Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It did, yet, earn Robbins his 2nd Tony Award for choreography. His streak of hits continued by owning Gypsy (1959), another Ethel Merman vehicle. By 1962, he had turned to straight play directing by owning Arthur Kopit's ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Around 1964, Robbins won matching Tony Awards for his direction & choreography of Fiddler on the Roof, one of a virtually all successful musical theater ever that for numbers of years likewise held a record when the yearn heading Broadway musical. Never deserting a ballet, he continued to choreograph and stage productions for each a Joffrey Ballet and the New York City Ballet into the 1970s.

Robbins became ballet master of the New York City Ballet in 1972 and worked almost entirely within authoritative dance throughout a next decade, pausing merely to stage revivals of West Side Story (1980) and Fiddler on the Roof'' (1981). Within 1981, his Chamber Dance Company toured the People's Republic of China.

A eighties saw an increased presence on TV when NBC aired ''Live From Studio 8H: An Evening of Jerome Robbins' Ballets'' with Members of the New York City Ballets & the retrospective of Robbins' choreography airy in PBS in a 1986 installment of Dance in America. A latter led to his creating a anthology indicate ''Jerome Robbins' Broadway'' in 1989 which recreated the virtually all successful production figures from either his 50-+ month career. Starring Jason Alexander as a narrator, the indicate involved stagings of cut amounts rather Irving Berlin's Mr. Monotony and well-known ones like the Tradition number from Fiddler on the Roof. For his efforts, he earned the fifth Tony Award.

When Robbins' career seemed to become the charmed 1, it was non while forgoing the period of difficulty. In the early 1950s, he was called to testify prior to a House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), suspected of communist sympathies. Because he cooperated sustaining HUAC, Robbins' career did non suffer & he was non blacklisted.

He died of the stroke at his home in Future York City at a age of 79.