Rita Moreno : a memoir /
"In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from impoverished Puerto Rican girl to Hollywood legend--and 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...
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New York, New York :
Celebra, published by the Penguin Group,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First Celebra trade paperback printing. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Paradise Lost
- "Hey, Boy"
- Puerto Rico
- The Great Change
- Frigid City
- Thawing Out
- American Dream
- Papo
- The Loss of Papo
- pt. II Hyperbolic Hollywood
- Making Movies: My Leap to the Silver Screen
- Hollywood Heaven: Louis B. Mayer and MGM
- Starlet Days ... and Nights
- Still Rosita
- Rita Rising
- pt. III Men, Love, and Romance
- Eye Candy and Leggy Ladies
- The Cocktail Party: Pimped?
- Dating, Hollywood Style
- Meeting Marlon
- Love, Obsession, and Mind Games
- How to Survive Suicide
- Saved by West Side Story
- Finding Myself in Politics
- Falling in Love Again
- pt. IV Reinventing Myself
- Marriage and Mami-hood
- Marlon and I Make a Movie
- Big Bird, The Electric Company, and Me
- The Accusatory Banana
- Losses and Blessings
- Perseverance
- Losing Lenny.