Mayer was in town, staying in the penthouse of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, and Rita could audition for him. Impressed, he told Moreno’s mother that MGM head honcho Louis B. She continued dancing in late-night New York venues, when one day an MGM talent scout spotted her at a recital. “I dropped out of school when I was 15, something like that, and I started to work right away,” she said of her performing life. Watch ‘West Side Story’ trailer of Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake At just 6, she made her debut in a Greenwich Village nightclub. There, Moreno quickly found her passion - Spanish dance. She moved to New York City in 1936 with her divorced mother, leaving her brother behind. Moreno was born Rosa Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, in 1931. “It goes up and down,” Moreno, 89, says in the doc of her eight decades in showbiz. The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner executive-produces and appears in Spielberg’s film, out in December she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime artistic achievement in 2015 and a new documentary about her life, “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl who Decided to Go for It,” hits theaters Friday after screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. The original Anita from 1961’s “West Side Story,” Moreno has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. When film fans got their first glimpse of Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake during this year’s Oscars, they heard a familiar voice singing the famous song “Somewhere” in the trailer: Rita Moreno. Monaco’s royal tribute to Grace Kelly reveals stunning family photos Jane Fonda: Why Katharine Hepburn ‘intimidated’ me on set of ‘On Golden Pond’Ĭastle with ties to Old Hollywood outside Manhattan lists for $1.64M “I’m taking advantage of every moment and I am doing it with a vengeance!”įor more on this story, pick up the latest issue of Closer magazine, on newsstands now.Cary Grant’s daughter slams speculation icon was gay: ‘I never saw a hint of that’ “This is the third act of my life and I want to be able to taste all the good stuff,” she says. Today, she’s still working and enjoying her well-deserved status as a legend and role model. In addition to her Oscar, she is one of the rare performers who has also won a Tony, Grammy and Emmy award. “He was a very controlling man - wonderful husband, father, loyal, but controlling.”ĭespite her disappointments and heartbreaks, Rita kept working. “We were married for around 46 years, but the last 20 years were not happy ones,” admits Rita, who was widowed in 2010. Three years after they split, she wed Leonard Gordon, a cardiologist who became her manager. “The more I saw of Marlon, the less I thought of myself.” “It was lust at first sight! Our sensual life was unbelievable,” Rita confides, but adds that their attraction was “obsessive” and unhealthy.
In 1954, she met Marlon Brando on the set of Désirée and plunged into a torrid eight-year romance.
In her private life, the uncertainties of her childhood caused Rita to fall for strong, controlling men. “I didn’t work for seven years after the Oscar and the Golden Globe. “I was offered a lot more gang movies,” she confides. Rita became the first Latina to ever win an Oscar - but her triumph did not lead to better parts. Landing the role of Anita, a strong, outspoken Puerto Rican woman, in 1961’s West Side Story, should have been a life-changer.
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