Rita Moreno

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Rita Moreno (2011)

Rita Moreno (* 11. December 1931 as Rosita Dolores Alverio in Humacao ) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer . In a career spanning more than 70 years, she has enjoyed success on both Broadway and Hollywood . Moreno is one of the few artists to have won all of the most important awards in the American entertainment industry with the Oscar , the Grammy , the Emmy , the Tony Award and the Golden Globe .

life and career

At the age of five, Moreno moved to New York City with her mother . At the age of eleven she dubbed American films into Spanish . She had her first Broadway role at the age of 13, which attracted the attention of talent scouts from Hollywood, where she made her film debut in 1950 in So Young and So Corrupted with Paul Henreid . In the following decade she starred in several films, but was dissatisfied with her stereotypical roles - mostly she played hot-blooded, naive Latinas in supporting roles. She was given a small appearance in 1951 as the silent film star Zelda Zanders in Singin 'in the Rain , one of the most successful film musicals of all time. She had probably her best film role during the 1950s in The King and I , alongside Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr .

In 1961 she played the character of the Puerto Rican immigrant Anita, whose boyfriend died of gang conflicts, in the musical West Side Story and won an Oscar as the first actress of Hispanic descent (in the category Best Supporting Actress ). The role made Moreno known worldwide, but the role offers in Hollywood were still rather one-sided, which is why she returned to Broadway and appeared there. It was only towards the end of the 1960s that she took on supporting roles in Hollywood cinema, alongside Marlon Brando in The Evening of the Following Day and James Garner in Marlowe (both 1969). In 1975, she was on Broadway for her performance in Terrence McNally's comedy The Ritz with the Tony Award excellent.

Rita Moreno (1998)

On television, Moreno worked between 1971 and 1977 on the children's series The Electric Company, which is still popular in the USA today . Moreno was a member of the ensemble in this program, which was supposed to give elementary school children an education through comical skits. Moreno won a Grammy Award in 1972 with the Electric Company's soundtrack album . She received the Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 1977 for her guest appearance on the Muppet Show . In the 1980s, she was the leading actress in the sitcom 9 to 5 , which was based on the movie of the same name . Between 1997 and 2003 she appeared in the television series Oz - Hell Behind Bars in a recurring role as a nun and trained psychologist Sister Reimondo. Moreno has been part of the main cast of the award-winning Netflix comedy One Day at a Time since 2017 , and embodies the fun-loving matriarch of a Cuban-American family. As of November 2018, Moreno is to play a role in the planned remake of West Side Story by Steven Spielberg and also act as a co-producer.

music

In 1959 Moreno released her first LP, Warm, Wild, Wonderful . In 1998, she starred in the music video released by Prince , The One , directed by Prince's then-wife Mayte Garcia . Moreno plays Garcia's mother in the video. In 2000, after 49 years, her second studio album, Rita Moreno, was released with pop and jazz standards. In 2015 Una vez más followed in Spanish.

Private

Rita Moreno (1963)

From the mid-1950s, Moreno had an affair with Marlon Brando for about eight years . When she became pregnant, Brando persuaded her to have an abortion, after which she attempted suicide . Moreno also dated Elvis Presley .

On June 18, 1965, Moreno married the cardiologist Lenny Gordon (1920-2010), with whom she remained married until his death and who was also her manager. They have a daughter together.

Awards (selection)

Rita Moreno receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush

Since winning the Emmy in 1977, Moreno has been one of just 15 artists who have won the most important awards in the US entertainment industry in their respective fields of cinema, television, theater and music with the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Awards.

In 1995 she received a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard . US President George W. Bush gave Moreno 2004, the Medal of Freedom ( "The Presidential Medal of Freedom"), the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 2009 she was honored with the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama . In 2013 she also received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for her life's work, winning all major American film awards. In 2015 she received the Kennedy Prize .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Rita Moreno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rita Moreno on Who Helped Change Hollywood. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rita Moreno overcame Hispanic stereotypes to achieve stardom. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Rita Moreno returns to West Side Story . November 28, 2018 ( bbc.com [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  4. ^ Rita Moreno - Warm, Wild Wonderful. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Rita Moreno - Rita Moreno | Songs, reviews, credits. Retrieved March 22, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Una vez mas at Allmusic
  7. ↑ After Trying Hollywood, Brando and Suicide, Rita Moreno Has Settled Down. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Susannah Cahalan: Rita Moreno tells all about her 'near-fatal' affair with Marlon Brando in memoir. In: New York Post. February 17, 2013, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Hilary Weaver: Rita Moreno Used Elvis to Make Marlon Brando Jealous. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Obituary
  11. ↑ http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/rita-moreno/
  12. ^ Rita Moreno, the Isley Brothers, Lucian Grainge, Milton Nascimento Honored at Commencement | Berklee College of Music. Retrieved May 17, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Moreno, Rita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alverio, Rosita Dolores (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Humacao , Puerto Rico