He said: ‘My wife would like to meet you would you have lunch with us?’” For some reason, she said yes. Moreno met him recently for the first time in 70 years. The shameful thing, she says, is that she kept him on because she thought he was the only person in the industry looking out for her. As a teenager, she was raped by her agent.
Moreno had a brutal introduction to showbusiness. In 1950, at 18, she signed to MGM a year later, she moved to 20th Century Fox. She dropped out of school at 15 and by 16 was the family’s breadwinner.
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At six, she made her professional debut at Greenwich theatre. From her earliest days, she remembers being called a “spic”. When she was four, her mother took her to New York in search of a better life, leaving behind Rita’s father (whom she saw again only once) and brother. Moreno was born in Puerto Rico to a seamstress and a farmer. This time, she plays a character specially created for her by the film’s scriptwriter, Tony Kushner – Valentina is the widow of Doc, who ran the sweet shop in the original. It is a testament to her remarkable life and arresting honesty – and the inglorious history of sexual abuse and racism in the film industry.Ī few days later, she features in one of the cinema events of the year – Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Bernstein/Sondheim classic West Side Story, released 60 years after Moreno mesmerised audiences as Anita, the girlfriend of the gang leader Bernardo. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, a brilliant warts-and-all documentary about her, is released in the UK on 6 December. Meanwhile, December marks two huge events (apart from the big day).
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She has been working regularly in TV – notably as the fabulously flirtatious grandmother in the Netflix sitcom One Day at a Time. Yet she has spent much of her career battling typecasting or simply not being cast at all. She is one of only six women to have bagged the Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards), alongside Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg and Liza Minnelli. Isn’t it exciting?” Moreno is one of the acting greats. Listen to her and you would knock off another 50.Ĭan I wish you an advance happy birthday, I ask. Moreno is a couple of weeks short of her 90th birthday, but look at her and you would knock off 20 years.
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“Well, here I am in my full glory,” she says from her home in Berkeley, California. R ita Moreno pops up on my computer screen in a bright red hat, huge pendant necklace and tortoiseshell glasses.
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