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Showtune Sunday: All About Rita Moreno!

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ritamo.jpgThis month marked the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the classic musical West Side Story – a film that won Rita Moreno an Oscar for best supporting actor.

I got to interview this great star back in 2009. For some odd reason, one of my friends, a few weeks earlier, kept singing Miss Moreno’s heavily accented version of Everything’s Coming Up Roses from The Ritz and each time, I completely busted up.

So when I intrerviewed Miss Moreno, I told her about it and without missing a beat, she launched right into it! Almost fell outa my chair.

She’s the best!

She’s also the first woman to have won Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy awards.  In more recent years, she’s received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

Miss Moreno is one of several female showbiz icons past 70 who are still performing on stage in one-woman shows. Others include Elaine Stritch, Florence Henderson, and Mitzi Gaynor.

“Aren’t we great?” she told me in 2009. “All I can say is that there’s the difference between us and people who don’t do anything at our age. It’s because we love our work. We love what we do. Why on Earth would we ever quit it?”

Let’s enjoy some vintage Rita Moreno!



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2 Remarks

  1. Truly a Star!

  2. Too bad there wasn’t a clip from one of her roles on the Electric Company and 9 to 5.

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