Rita Moreno

by Rita Moreno

Book Overview

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, West Side Story star Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend--one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.

Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea voyage with her mother and wound up in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451416392
• ISBN13: 9780451416391
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Celebra
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Living your life through your ethnicity

Rita used her looks and feminine wiles to get acting jobs, then complained that she had to use her looks and feminine wiles to get acting jobs. Isn't that how most actors become successful? For all that she accomplished, her glass seemed to be perpetually half empty. What a life she created for herself. She received more awards than most, yet that did not satisfy her. To this day, she still complains and thinks that she was treated poorly because of her ethnicity. She should have been counting her blessings. She viewed her entire life through the prism of her ethnicity. Sad. Rita didn't realize that most actors that receive Oscars are never heard from again. Not just her. George Chakiris received Best Supporting Actor for the same movie and it did not catapult him into stardom either. Some people are just never satisfied with the many blessings they have received.