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In 1952 she got a cameo in Singin' in the Rain as the silent-movie star Zelda Zanders.
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Her skin would be darkened she would be told to speak lines such as "Why you no love me no more? Why you like white girl?" in an "exotic" accent. "Illiterate, immoral characters – men's little island girls," Moreno says. Nor did she have any idea about the roles she would end up playing. It turned into a stalking situation." Did she realise beforehand what went on in Hollywood? "I had no idea." "He found my phone number and started to call me all the time. Then there was Buddy Adler, who ran 20th Century Fox. But I was horrified." If Cohn were alive today, does she think he would be in jail for sex offences? "Yes, I think Harvey Weinstein would have had company. "I had just met the man, and he said – with his wife in the room, by the way – 'You better watch out: I'd like to f**k you.' That may have been the third time I'd heard that word in my life, and I stood there and giggled. Soon after being raped she was introduced to the notorious sexual predator Harry Cohn, the co-founder of Columbia Pictures, at a party. “I was so horrified that all I was able to say was, ‘You’re a piece of work,’ and I got up and left.” “I was examining every inch of his face and his soul, and when his wife went to the bathroom he came back to the day he raped me and said, ‘You know, I always wished I had made you pregnant.’” She repeats his words, still shocked. Would you have lunch with us?’” For some reason she said yes. He said, ‘My wife would like to meet you. 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 show business. 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 there she remembers being called a "spic". When she was four her mother took her to the US 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. It is a testament to her remarkable life and arresting honesty – and the inglorious history of sexual abuse and racism in the film industry. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, a brilliant warts-and-all documentary about her, is released on this side of the Atlantic on December 6th. 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 – the 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 week or two 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 California. "Changing the blocking mid-play was no easy job.Rita Moreno pops up on my computer screen in a bright red hat, huge pendant necklace and tortoiseshell glasses. "Alan was trying to follow me around on stage and after the show he said, 'What the f**ck were you doing?'" she recalled merrily. Moreno pranced around the stage trying to disguise a milk stain that extended from her breast to the hem of her aquamarine, wool sleeveless dress. She embraced breast-feeding when it wasn't the norm, and tells a hilarious story about forgetting to change her nursing pads before appearing in a two-person play with Alan Alda. Moreno loved both the gig and the studio location - across the street from her apartment on the Upper West Side, giving her more time with her young daughter. In the 1970s Moreno moved into children's television, performing on "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" on PBS. He was the most devoted husband and father, and then grandfather, and the children miss him terribly." Moreno has two grandsons, 13 and 11. "But we really complemented each other and understood there was no one else that would suit the other as well. "We were very different - he was a nice Jewish doctor who wasn't thrilled when we attended showbiz events, and that was my entire life," she laughed.
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