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[claps]
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[birds tweeting]
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[crinkling]
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Boy, I hate doing this.
I really hate this.
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-[laughs]
-No, they have people to do this.
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You can tell I'm not a real star 'cause
somebody else would be doing this.
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Exactly.
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[lively jazz music]
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[Rita] How interesting when you begin
to get a… a glow about you
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because things are going so well.
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Show business, that's why you must
never really believe anything.
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I mean, about your fame
and all that kind of bullshit.
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Yeah, it goes up and down.
Right now, it's up.
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Whoo-hoo!
[laughs]
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Ai, shit!
[chuckles]
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Oh, a diamond's on the floor.
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It started with my 77th
and it was so much fun and so good.
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For my birthday parties,
I always do a theme
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and I demand costumes.
[laughs]
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People love to wear costumes,
you know that? They love it.
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This year, it was Cuba.
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[Fernanda] This is like a kids' party.
[laughs]
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I'm not sure how it relates to Cuba,
but it's cool.
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-You know how it relates? It's festive.
-[Fernanda chuckles]
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That's exactly how it relates.
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Come look at the baby bananas.
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Sort of looks like an elephant penis.
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Aren't they darling? Hey, love.
They're like my little babies.
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-[lively music]
-[indistinct chatter]
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Rita, she's like… She is a diva girl…
[laughs]
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…in the best sense of the word.
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She comes with, like, history.
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[Norman] I can't think of anybody
I've ever met in the business
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who lived the American dream
more than Rita Moreno.
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[Rita] Being a natural performer…
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I mean, I just think I was born that way.
I was wired that way.
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I wanted to be a movie star
from the time I saw my first picture.
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[all singing in Spanish]
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[Rita]
And I always think, what a journey.
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[singing in Spanish]
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I got a message for your American buddy.
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You tell that murderer
that Maria's never going to meet him.
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You tell him
that Chino found out about them
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and shot her!
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She's dead!
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[woman] Some might view Rita Moreno
as the embodiment of the American dream.
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Eight decades after Rita Moreno
first laid eyes on the Statue of Liberty,
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she continues to personify its promise.
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That here, in America,
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no matter what you look like
or where you come from
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or what your last name is,
you can make it if you try.
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[woman] What she was able to achieve
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coming from a colonial-migrant
background into stardom.
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Some people might see it that way.
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But to me, I see more the limitations,
the obstacles put in her way
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simply because of her perceived origin
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and the associations
that people had with that.
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When Rita Moreno came into the scene,
she was following very few people.
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Uh, Rita Hayworth being the obvious one.
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Rita Hayworth, you know, masking
in some ways, her Latina identity.
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And Rita Moreno,
I think, faces that challenge, too.
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What is the possibility
for someone like her to play herself?
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[Rita] My mommy used to call me
her little doll,
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her muñequita.
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And that was a role I learned to play.
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-Hello, cutie.
-[indistinct laughter]
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I talk out loud to myself.
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I've done this since I was a little girl.
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My mother muttered constantly in Spanish.
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[mutters in Spanish]
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[laughs]
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I even tell myself jokes sometimes.
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Not tell jokes,
but I'll say something in a funny voice
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and I'll laugh at myself.
[laughs]
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[Rita] I was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
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Humacao is the one town
that had the hospital.
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That was in 1931.
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I had my little brother, Francisco,
and my father, Paco Alverío.
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I was barefoot most of the time.
We didn't need shoes for anything.
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I remember my mamma going to
the local creek to wash clothing.
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And all of the women there would sing
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and yell across at each other
and tell stories and…
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[speaks Spanish]
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You know?
[chuckles]
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And the kids would play in the creek.
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It's, um… It's a very happy memory.
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When my mother got her divorce,
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we moved in with Grandfather
who used to make me dance to records.
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Not make me. I loved it.
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Very early on, I realized that getting
attention was a very nice thing.
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What really changed all that
was moving to the United States for a…
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"better life."
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Si, and Chino makes half
of what the Pollack makes.
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-The Pollack is in America--
-Oh, here comes the whole commercial.
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-Hey, your mother's a Pole.
-…a Pole.
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[both] Your father's a Swede.
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-[George] But you were born--
-[Rita] You were born here,
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that's all that you need.
You're an American. But us?
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-Foreigners!
-[all] Lice! Cockroaches!
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[Rita] My mommy and I took a ship
called the SS Carabobo.
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Which is really a hilarious name
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because in English
it simply means "stupid face."
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Which is not a good omen, by the way…
[chuckles]
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…because we immediately ran into a storm.
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We were throwing up, we were sick,
people were very frightened.
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So that was our entry
into this so-called better life.
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It didn't take me long
before I figured out
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my mom was leaving Puerto Rico for good.
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And she was leaving my papi
and my little brother Francisco.
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I never saw my brother again.
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Coming from Puerto Rico to New York
was like experiencing a reverse Oz.
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To go from that glorious place,
green and colorful, to this.
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I looked at this lady way up there,
this green lady.
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And she seemed
to be holding a giant ice cream cone.
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I thought she was
the President of the United States.
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[Frances] People arriving in the '30s
are coming during the Depression.
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That's one of the reasons that
Puerto Ricans encountered certain…
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uh, or had certain tensions
with other groups
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that were also competing for the limited
a-amount of jobs that were available.
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[Rita] When we arrived there,
I think it was probably February.
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Freezing, freezing cold.
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[Hector] Things were very tough
economically in Puerto Rico.
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So they arrived without clothes
on their back, literally.
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But they always had
a certain style, a certain cachet.
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They were just, "Oh, miro."
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[Rita] And my mom would sew for me a lot
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because she dressed me up
like a little doll.
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There was so much abuse and, for real,
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to segregate shit
in New York at that time.
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[Rita] I had to be very careful
about walking on certain streets
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because these boy gangs would hang out
and they would call me names
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that nowadays
a lot of people don't recognize.
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Spic, which was one of the worst things
you could call somebody in those days.
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You can walk on this block
with your people, but not on that block.
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Um, you know, it was, uh… That was real.
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That was real
and… and the discrimination you faced
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based on what block
you were walking down, uh, was very real.
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[Rita] And I grew up in New York City
learning and believing
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that I didn't have much worth.
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If you feel that you have no value,
that's a very, very serious illness.
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And I went through
that kind of feeling of unworthiness
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for years and years and years.
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Dancing lessons was
the perfect panacea for me at the time.
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And so I started doing Spanish dance.
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I made my professional debut
when I was six
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at a Greenwich Village nightclub.
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A lot of the formative years of her life
are spent figuring out how to survive,
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and at an early age, she figures out
that she can survive by dancing.
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[Rita] I dropped out of school
when I was 15, something like that.
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And I started to work right away
in nightclubs.
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[Tony] At the age of 16 years old,
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she was the sole breadwinner
for her family.
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[Rita] I remember
doing one show at a waterfront
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where the young men were waiting to leave.
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I remember I sang "Rum and Coca-Cola"
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♪ Drinking rum and Coca-Cola ♪
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in my Carmen Miranda getup
that my mom made for me.
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She made all my costumes.
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And this big bell went off
like a school bell
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and it was time
for some of those boys to leave.
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And, you know, I didn't get
the poignance of a moment like that.
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I didn't understand that maybe at least
half of them were not coming back.
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Entertaining for her was a form of
surviving some very tough experiences.
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[Rita] I wanted to be in movies
from the time I could say movies.
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That was my goal,
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that eventually somehow or other
I would get into movies.
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And when a talent scout did spot me
at a dance recital
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and he was from MGM,
I was crazy with joy and happiness.
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He went backstage
and gave my mother his business card.
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And he said, "Louis B. Mayer is in town."
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He was the head of MGM Studios
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and responsible for, among other things,
The Wizard of Oz.
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He said, "He's going to be in town.
I want you to meet him."
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We met him in the penthouse
at the Waldorf-Astoria,
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but we had a hard time getting up there
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because we didn't know
what a penthouse was.
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We didn't know what elevator.
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My mom says, "I don't know what to do."
So, we go to the desk.
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She said, "We have to see Louis B. Major.
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And, uh, we don't know what to do."
And the lady says,
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"You just press the button that says PH."
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In that manner she said it. "PH."
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"Oh, okay."
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So my mom presses PH and we go
straight up to his penthouse apartment.
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We'd never even been to a hotel.
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I mean, this was all absolute… I was 16.
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We dressed me up to look as much
like Elizabeth Taylor as possible.
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It was really fun.
We got me a… a corselete
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to make my waist small
because she had a tiny, tiny waist.
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And, uh, we did some help up here.
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And I did my hair like her,
I did my eyebrows like her.
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I did everything I can to look like her.
She was my role model.
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Because there were no role models
for someone like me in those days. Nobody!
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There was nobody.
So, she was all I could look up to
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because she was young, she was a teenager.
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And I went in there and we met,
and he sized me up.
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And he says, "My God," he said,
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"She looks like
a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor."
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I was so thrilled.
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And I got a contract from that,
from not doing anything.
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Here's the funny thing,
you work your ass off all your life
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and then something like this happens
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and it didn't take anything
but a connection with somebody.
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It's so… it's bizarre.
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[train announcer]
Union Pacific going west.
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Train No.103, streamliner,
City of Los Angeles.
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[Rita] And about six months later,
my mom and I took the train to Hollywood.
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And we found a little cottage
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in Culver City very close to the studio
so I could walk there
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because we didn't know how to drive,
we didn't have a car.
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[light music]
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I mean, think little Puerto Rican girl
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who nobody thought much of
at MGM with a contract.
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It was unspeakably exciting.
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And I have to tell you
that I was there every day.
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Good morning.
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Thank you.
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People were not nice to me at MGM.
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I mean, I would say hello
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and people would just
sort of look the other way.
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You know, I instantly took it to mean
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that because I was Latina,
that's inevitable, right?
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When you're not treated well
and you have that problem, uh…
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or that fear,
that's always what you think of first.
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Oh, blintzes? Seriously?
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Wow.
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Oh, my.
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-Yum, yum, good for the tum.
-[man laughs]
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-[Rita] Hey, good morning.
-[man] Hey, good morning. How are you?
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[Rita] Do you like blintzes?
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[man] No, I do eggs
and bacon every morning.
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-[Rita] Oh, okay.
-[man] I like my cholesterol high.
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Exact… Oh! No higher
than sour cream, dear.
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-[man] See you out there.
-[Rita] Okay.
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Good morning, Dr. Ford.
Thank you for coming forward
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and being willing
to share your story with us.
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I know this wasn't easy for you.
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Sexual violence is a serious problem.
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In the United States, it's estimated
one in three women and one in six men
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will experience some form
of sexual violence in their lifetime.
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I really was very often treated
like a sex object.
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One of the things the publicity
department would do sometimes
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is fix you up on a date with somebody
who actually wanted arm candy.
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The studio would ask contract players
to go out on pretend dates.
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And every time
your picture was in a magazine,
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they mentioned 20th Century Fox
and your next picture.
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When you're in a contract to a studio,
they own you.
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I think Rita and I
and most of the girls then expected it.
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[Rita] I was in my early 20s.
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They said, "Go to this cocktail party
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because there's going to be
a lot of important people there.
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And, uh, this fellow
that we… we'd like to fix you up with
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is kind of well known
and, uh… it might do you some good."
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I thought, "Oh, okay,
we'll go to the cocktail party."
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The host,
the man who ran a big whiskey distillery
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comes over to me, he says, "Come on,
I'll introduce you to… to people."
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And he introduced me to Harry Cohn,
the head of Columbia Studios,
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a distinctly vulgar and crude man.
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And before I knew it,
he actually said to me,
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"You know, I'd like to fuck you."
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I mean, that may have been the third time
in my life I heard that word used.
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And what did I do?
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I giggled like an idiot,
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and-and just backed away.
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The host of the evening,
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Mr. Distillery, Mr. Whiskey,
comes over to me and he said,
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"Why don't you dance with me?"
I said, "Sure."
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So, we started to dance
and he began to press against me
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very, very hard.
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And before I knew it,
he started to get a little bit of
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sweat beads on his upper lip
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and he started to breathe heavily
and he was really…
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He wasn't pressing against me.
He was grinding against me.
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And he actually said,
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"You're a sexy little bitch, aren't you?"
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I went out into the garden
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where I found Mexican gardeners,
because this was an afternoon party.
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Tears again, started to say,
"I need your help. I have to go home."
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They didn't need an explanation,
they kind of knew.
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And they put one
of their jackets on me and took me home
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to my little cottage in Culver City.
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And those were the first gentlemen
I had seen that whole afternoon.
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♪ Tina-Lina, prepare to lose your heart ♪
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♪ When you do the Tina-Lina
All you need's a concertina ♪
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♪ And a bit of dance space on the floor ♪
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[Rita] I was this young actress
trying to make my way.
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Hollywood in those days was a place
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where people like me played native girls.
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An accent was always necessary.
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The native's bad.
Must you say it over and over again?
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They were dark-skinned.
They were nothing like me.
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And all of these characters were
always treated like illiterate, immoral.
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They were always
men's, uh, uh… little island girls.
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[man] What are you reading?
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A book of magic.
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Now, what does a girl like you
want with a book like that?
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I will prepare a great love spell
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and then I will work the magic
on Tonio and he will love me.
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But, you know, that's… I'm an actress.
I'm supposed to be able to do anything.
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So at first, I accepted all that,
I thought it was fine.
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But then it got to the point
where I was doing nothing but that.
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An island girl.
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It was an Esther Williams swimming movie.
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They used to call her
Esther "The Backstroke" Williams.
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So I got a feature role in that,
but it was again makeup the color of mud.
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-I'm right here.
-[men laugh]
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Okay, come along.
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That's all I ever got.
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And it began to really hurt.
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Hey, Pepe!
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Hey, how are you?
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We're given a lot less space to identify
with ourselves, to grow into ourselves.
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You know, our business is
predominantly built and funded by men.
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And so, when they do
make things for us to be in
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it is in a very, very limited scope.
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A woman, she wants a man.
Hey, Pierre, catch.
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As an actress,
there were so many other things
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that you're holding down
because it would not be understood.
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It would be too much.
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She was deciding
that her story and who she was,
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was more important
than how they viewed her.
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You know, I knew her iconically
from West Side Story,
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but one of my other favorite movie
musicals is Singin' in the Rain.
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And she's in Singin' in the Rain.
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♪ Singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain ♪
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[woman] The darling of the flapper set,
Zelda Zanders!
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[crowd scream]
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Zelda! Oh, Zelda!
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[Karen] In Singin' in the Rain,
she has sentences
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and has a character that we remember.
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Zelda's had so much unhappiness.
I hope this time it's really love.
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And she is not known as a Latin actress.
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She sort of…
She fits into this scope of showgirls.
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And when I got old enough
to look back and I noticed that,
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I thought, "Oh, my gosh.
She was a trailblazer."
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I thought, "Okay,
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I'm not going to have
to do those parts anymore."
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I was so thrilled.
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♪ I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain ♪
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[Rita] I was there when
Gene Kelly sang to "Singin' in the Rain".
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So, it was one of the great experiences
of my life. I loved it.
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It was such fun.
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♪ And the sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love ♪
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[Rita] And… and you know
it had to happen with Gene Kelly.
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Of course, it would happen with Gene Kelly
'cause he was a smart man, all that…
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P.S. It all went right back
to the, uh, the dusky maiden roles.
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[man] He bring present to King.
Her name is Tuptim.
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Mrs. Anna? Please, you have
some English books I can read?
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Yes, of course, my dear,
but they're not unpacked yet.
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[women chatter, laugh]
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[Rita] In the King and I,
I was under contract to 20th Century Fox.
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And this girl is present to me
from a Burma prince.
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[Rita] He called me up one day
on the phone. He said,
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"This is Yul Brynner."
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My name is Tuptim.
I already speak English.
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[Rita] He said, "You know,
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your part is very boring
because you're just a soubrette."
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He says, "All you do is pine and look sad
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because you can't have your lover
and that's boring."
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And of course, I agreed with him.
Those parts were impossible to play.
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At least to play them interestingly.
There was nothing.
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You… You know, you always
just go around looking like this.
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♪ Behold and believe what you see ♪
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And I just, you know,
tried to do the best I could
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with what… with what was a boring part.
368
00:26:03,979 --> 00:26:06,356
"We Kiss In The Shadows", lovely song.
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But she was always like,
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♪ We kiss in the shadows ♪
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If it could only be.
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It will be. I swear this.
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When all is arranged,
I will get word to you.
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[Rita] That is what
I was being trained for.
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For the rest of my life,
that is what I was going to do.
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[Tony] She made herself
into somebody she wasn't
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in order to please other people
for a very long time.
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As an entertainer and as a woman.
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[Hector] At the time,
many of us were not recognized
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or not given opportunities
to… to do the work we could do.
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00:26:45,895 --> 00:26:47,814
Fortunately for me,
it was three times easier.
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It was three times harder for women.
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Let go of me, I tell you!
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[announcer] And love hits her
as it has never hit her before.
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00:26:55,572 --> 00:26:59,784
I remember her saying
it… it really hurt her soul
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to have to play
those characters in that way.
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00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:05,290
And we have to remember
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when our community only sees that
in media and television and in film,
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when you only see those characters
portrayed in that negative way,
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it's not only educating
other communities about us,
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00:27:18,386 --> 00:27:21,806
but it's also teaching us
how we see ourselves.
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♪ Two ladies in the shade
Of a banana tree ♪
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♪ How delectable desires… ♪
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[Rita] I hated being Hispanic
because I learned very early
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that it was not a good thing.
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You were looked down upon
or you were thought of as a sex object.
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00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:41,951
Hello.
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00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:43,787
This is just like a movie I saw.
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The girl lived upstairs
400
00:27:45,663 --> 00:27:48,458
and used to come down
and visit the man downstairs
401
00:27:48,541 --> 00:27:51,336
and air-condition herself off
with his air conditioner.
402
00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:54,631
[Eva] When you move to Hollywood,
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00:27:54,714 --> 00:27:58,676
you get a very fast education
about what box you belong in.
404
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,056
I remember encountering the same
struggles that Rita encountered,
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00:28:03,139 --> 00:28:07,644
which was, "Can you do it with an accent?
Can you… Can you make it more Latin?
406
00:28:07,727 --> 00:28:12,107
Can you do it a little more spicy?"
What is… What does that mean, spicy?
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00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:16,778
[Tony] She's on this set
and she's playing a Polynesian girl.
408
00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,990
And she's aware
that there's an accent involved,
409
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:24,285
but nobody on the set seems concerned
about what kind of accent to use.
410
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:26,621
No one's helping her,
so she comes up with what she calls
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the universal ethnic accent.
412
00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:30,250
You know, she was auditioning
for the Russian girl…
413
00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:31,835
[with accent]
…and she would talk like this.
414
00:28:31,918 --> 00:28:34,421
And then they go, "Okay,
could you audition for the Cuban girl?"…
415
00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:35,839
[with accent]
…and she would talk like this.
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00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:38,800
And then they go, "Okay, can you… can you,
you know, do the Hungarian girl?"…
417
00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:39,884
[with accent]
…and she would talk like this.
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00:28:39,968 --> 00:28:41,052
Nobody even knew the difference.
419
00:28:41,136 --> 00:28:43,054
Those are very different countries.
[laughs]
420
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:47,684
She had to have
a lot of staying power, um…
421
00:28:48,184 --> 00:28:50,061
because there wasn't
a whole lot for her to do.
422
00:28:53,523 --> 00:28:58,987
If you're artistic-minded,
you do what you have to do.
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00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:04,451
[Rita] I wanted to turn the parts down,
but what happened is
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that's all that was offered
and I had to make a living.
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00:29:08,663 --> 00:29:10,457
So I was kind of stuck.
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00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:14,210
And I just made the best of it
and did all those kind of roles,
427
00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:15,795
but I did a lot of those…
428
00:29:15,879 --> 00:29:18,506
[with accent]
…where I talked like this all the time.
429
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,300
"Why you no love me no more?"
430
00:29:20,383 --> 00:29:22,135
And here's her sense of humor, she said,
431
00:29:22,218 --> 00:29:27,098
"I got so tired of having to say,
'Why you like white girl?'
432
00:29:27,182 --> 00:29:29,976
Or 'Why you take gold from my people?'"
[chuckles]
433
00:29:30,059 --> 00:29:31,060
I think that's funny.
434
00:29:33,062 --> 00:29:36,316
[Rita] I was doing a film
called Seven Cities of Gold.
435
00:29:36,399 --> 00:29:40,737
I was once again the Indian girl
who was the mistress of a white man.
436
00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:43,531
And he tells her
that he doesn't want her anymore.
437
00:29:44,824 --> 00:29:46,326
You don't want me.
438
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:51,790
[man] Now, Ula, wait!
Ula, stop! Now, wait!
439
00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:54,292
I didn't mean it, Ula.
Really, I didn't. Ula!
440
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:56,211
-Ula!
-[Ula screams]
441
00:29:56,294 --> 00:30:01,508
[Rita] Ula is lying amongst the waves.
And it just so happened on that day
442
00:30:01,591 --> 00:30:05,804
that millions of little stinging jellyfish
were in the water.
443
00:30:07,263 --> 00:30:09,015
Needless to say, I was twitching.
444
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:11,518
And the director said,
445
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:15,313
"For Christ's sake, will you stop moving?
You're supposed to be dead, you know!"
446
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:22,070
And I said, "I-I-I'm really sorry but,
um, uh, there's a lot of jellyfish here
447
00:30:22,153 --> 00:30:25,406
and they're stinging me."
He says, "Shut up and do as I say!"
448
00:30:27,283 --> 00:30:31,371
Yeah, that's what he said
in front of the crew, everybody.
449
00:30:33,414 --> 00:30:34,249
There you have it.
450
00:30:35,124 --> 00:30:40,088
He didn't see me as a young actress
trying to make her way in Hollywood.
451
00:30:40,171 --> 00:30:45,718
Rosita Moreno, now Rita Moreno.
He saw me… as Ula.
452
00:30:48,388 --> 00:30:53,059
And I get the message loud and clear:
shut up and be sexy.
453
00:30:57,063 --> 00:31:01,109
…uh, stated she doesn't know
Judge Kavanaugh,
454
00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:03,820
and doesn't recall
ever attending a party with him.
455
00:31:04,404 --> 00:31:06,906
My staff has made repeated requests…
456
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:11,661
The FBI explicitly does not
in this or any other case
457
00:31:11,744 --> 00:31:14,455
reach a conclusion. Period.
458
00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:21,129
Oh, bullshit! Jesus. Unbelievable! FBI!
459
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:22,589
[man continues speaking on TV]
460
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,177
Actually, my agent raped me,
461
00:31:28,261 --> 00:31:31,890
and I didn't even realize
that he had done that, uh…
462
00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:37,645
I was in his apartment
because we were going to go somewhere.
463
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:40,231
He was going to take me somewhere.
464
00:31:40,773 --> 00:31:42,692
Maybe it was even to dinner or something.
465
00:31:43,276 --> 00:31:45,737
And I was all dressed up
and he said something about
466
00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:49,407
how pretty I was
and how I looked beautiful.
467
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:53,703
And before I know it,
he's, uh, kissing me,
468
00:31:53,786 --> 00:31:56,789
forcing himself on me, actually.
I'm not kissing him.
469
00:31:57,415 --> 00:31:59,792
And he pushes me, because it was a couch.
470
00:32:00,543 --> 00:32:03,212
And he actually…
471
00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:07,258
Um, he actually raped me.
472
00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:09,844
And, um…
473
00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:14,641
It was a terrible story
because I was also menstruating.
474
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:16,392
[clicks tongue]
475
00:32:16,476 --> 00:32:20,104
And I pushed him away
and I ran out of there.
476
00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:23,024
[woman on TV]
Because how women are treated for…
477
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:28,905
Here's what's terrible.
I still let him be my agent.
478
00:32:31,407 --> 00:32:34,202
Because he was the only one
I knew who was helping me
479
00:32:35,828 --> 00:32:38,331
in my, uh, so-called career.
480
00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:45,046
That's what astonishes me,
that I thought so little of myself.
481
00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:48,216
[man on TV] Well, then let's
go back to the incident.
482
00:32:48,716 --> 00:32:51,928
What is the strongest memory you have?
483
00:32:52,762 --> 00:32:57,100
The strongest memory of the incident,
something that you cannot forget.
484
00:32:57,767 --> 00:33:02,522
It's the laughter,
the uproarious laughter between the two.
485
00:33:02,605 --> 00:33:06,526
-[Rita] Their raucous, raucous laughter.
-[woman] Hideous! Hideous!
486
00:33:06,609 --> 00:33:08,152
[Rita] As he mounted her.
487
00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:13,825
She was just asked if, uh,
she can one hundred percent identify
488
00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:15,702
who was on top of her and she said,
489
00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:18,204
"One hundred percent," without hesitation.
490
00:33:19,747 --> 00:33:22,208
I am so glad she came out.
491
00:33:24,877 --> 00:33:26,879
Hey, this is Lucia.
492
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:32,677
Lucia does magic with hair.
493
00:33:34,929 --> 00:33:38,349
I-I had to deal with it in some way,
so I just…
494
00:33:39,767 --> 00:33:43,021
took everything out of my mind,
and I was like that for a long time.
495
00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:44,564
Everything out of my mind.
496
00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:49,861
Until somebody said to me,
"You-You-You really need therapy."
497
00:33:50,653 --> 00:33:52,238
It was Marlon Brando.
498
00:33:56,159 --> 00:33:58,828
From what I understand, uh,
Rita Moreno wasn't just
499
00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:02,832
dating Marlon Brando.
They had an affair that lasted years.
500
00:34:03,458 --> 00:34:07,086
[Rita] We were together almost,
on and off, for seven, eight years.
501
00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:11,632
He was anathema to my life.
502
00:34:12,425 --> 00:34:18,890
Marlon Brando was the single
greatest movie star of his generation,
503
00:34:18,973 --> 00:34:20,433
especially in the 1950s.
504
00:34:20,516 --> 00:34:22,935
It began with A Streetcar Named Desire.
505
00:34:23,603 --> 00:34:27,565
He was the king.
I mean, he was a huge star.
506
00:34:28,816 --> 00:34:34,655
Like very few eras have seen, actually.
And he loved me.
507
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:39,535
♪ Be careful ♪
508
00:34:40,661 --> 00:34:45,500
♪ It's my heart ♪
509
00:34:46,209 --> 00:34:49,629
He was the daddy that I couldn't please.
510
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:53,549
I didn't know that.
I wasn't aware of that at all.
511
00:34:53,633 --> 00:34:56,010
But he was the one I needed to please.
512
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:58,846
He was the one I wanted to be married to.
513
00:35:01,849 --> 00:35:05,603
Have you ever been so obsessed by somebody
514
00:35:06,312 --> 00:35:09,690
that you feel as if
you can't breathe without them?
515
00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:11,109
-[audience] Whoo!
-Yeah.
516
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:12,360
[chuckles]
517
00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:14,320
That's how Marlon felt about himself.
518
00:35:14,403 --> 00:35:17,281
[laughter]
519
00:35:17,365 --> 00:35:20,034
[cheering, applause]
520
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:23,830
[Rita] You know,
I… I think of it now, I think…
521
00:35:24,914 --> 00:35:26,040
[exhales]
522
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,542
…what was to love?
523
00:35:29,168 --> 00:35:32,088
But there were certain things
that just thrilled me.
524
00:35:32,171 --> 00:35:36,175
The fact that he was in fact ungettable,
525
00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:40,179
that made me extremely attracted to him.
526
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,392
He looked like a Greek god
for heaven's sake, he really did.
527
00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:49,230
And he was probably one
of the funniest people I've ever known.
528
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:51,107
And he really did care for me.
529
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:53,860
♪ Be careful ♪
530
00:35:56,279 --> 00:36:01,576
♪ Be careful ♪
531
00:36:01,659 --> 00:36:02,702
[Rita] I was pregnant.
532
00:36:03,452 --> 00:36:06,622
Uh… Marlon had made me pregnant,
533
00:36:06,706 --> 00:36:11,669
but I can't say I blame him entirely
because I let it happen.
534
00:36:11,752 --> 00:36:14,463
I think I had some hopes
that, uh, he would say,
535
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:16,549
"Oh, well, in that case,
let's get married."
536
00:36:18,134 --> 00:36:20,386
But it wasn't that way,
it didn't happen that way.
537
00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:25,850
He asked somebody
and somebody found a doctor for me
538
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:27,602
who would do it.
539
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,271
Obviously, sub rosa.
540
00:36:31,272 --> 00:36:37,361
And I had to bring cash with me.
And he put me to sleep and did the deed.
541
00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:41,908
Well, he actually didn't
really do the deed.
542
00:36:42,408 --> 00:36:46,037
He disturbed the pregnancy
is what I found out
543
00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:49,540
when for days and days, I kept bleeding.
544
00:36:50,249 --> 00:36:52,793
And I remember my…
my roommate, my girlfriend,
545
00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:56,339
very close friend, said,
"This is not supposed to happen."
546
00:36:58,049 --> 00:36:59,008
[hesitates]
547
00:36:59,091 --> 00:37:02,303
Very scary because I could have died.
548
00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:06,641
It's being made harder and harder
for women to have abortions.
549
00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:10,978
They're closing a lot of clinics
and it-it's terrible.
550
00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:13,856
And I believe very firmly
551
00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:18,611
that a woman should have the right
to an abortion if she needs it.
552
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:26,911
-[Rita] Women matter.
-We are America.
553
00:37:26,994 --> 00:37:30,289
[crowd cheer]
554
00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:34,543
And we are here to stay.
555
00:37:37,213 --> 00:37:41,509
I remember her speaking out at marches
in New York City when I was young.
556
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,512
Any time any kind
of women's cause came to her,
557
00:37:45,012 --> 00:37:46,430
she would be there for them.
558
00:37:47,014 --> 00:37:50,017
There is a gender imbalance
and there is an abuse of power
559
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:53,062
that continues to happen
in-in many industries.
560
00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:58,317
Because I had my experiences at a time
when it was just par for the course.
561
00:37:58,401 --> 00:38:01,070
It was so rampant.
562
00:38:01,570 --> 00:38:03,614
[reporter] It's just accepted,
you're saying, back then?
563
00:38:03,698 --> 00:38:07,660
Of course. Particularly then.
I mean, who were you going to go to?
564
00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:10,037
Nobody was going to do anything about it.
565
00:38:11,747 --> 00:38:15,251
I think I knew
one female music executive at the time
566
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:16,877
throughout my music career.
567
00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:20,214
But I know of everything that happens.
568
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:23,718
The abuses of power
that happen with beautiful women,
569
00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:25,928
and it still happens and it's still
going to continue to happen.
570
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:28,472
And it's up to all of us to change it.
571
00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:35,563
When Rita was talking about it so loudly
and clearly in her lifetime, um…
572
00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:38,482
we didn't pay attention
and w-we didn't appreciate
573
00:38:38,566 --> 00:38:40,943
the whistleblowing
she was doing at that moment.
574
00:38:41,027 --> 00:38:44,405
[Annette] One of the things that brought
Brando and Rita Moreno together
575
00:38:44,488 --> 00:38:47,825
was that he was deeply involved
in the Civil Rights movement.
576
00:38:47,908 --> 00:38:53,039
So he shared with Rita Moreno
a social consciousness
577
00:38:53,122 --> 00:38:55,875
which was not as typical of actors
578
00:38:55,958 --> 00:38:59,378
in the late '50s, early '60s
as it is today.
579
00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:02,048
To her mind,
he was involved with the world,
580
00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:03,424
he was a student of the world,
581
00:39:03,507 --> 00:39:08,387
he wanted to talk about many, many, many
things that she loved being exposed to,
582
00:39:08,888 --> 00:39:11,474
and then steeping herself
in trying to educate herself.
583
00:39:11,974 --> 00:39:14,477
In some ways,
she becomes a conscious activist.
584
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,397
[Rita] I got up in front of a microphone
for the first time in my life
585
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:24,070
and I talked about how we had to
organize to stop these atom bomb tests
586
00:39:25,112 --> 00:39:26,989
because of stuff that was in atom bombs
587
00:39:27,073 --> 00:39:29,825
that would get into the grass
of meadows all over the place.
588
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,542
My first major experience
was on the march on Washington
589
00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:43,756
when I sat no less than 15 feet
from Dr. Martin Luther King.
590
00:39:44,298 --> 00:39:46,300
[applause]
591
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,719
One hundred years later,
592
00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:53,557
the Negro still is not free.
593
00:39:54,308 --> 00:39:58,312
[Rita] I was there when he uttered
the "I have a dream" speech.
594
00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:00,689
[Martin Luther King]
We can never be satisfied
595
00:40:00,773 --> 00:40:02,775
as long as the Negro is the vic-victim
596
00:40:02,858 --> 00:40:06,654
of the unspeakable horrors
of police brutality.
597
00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:09,865
I loved being listened to
598
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:12,743
when I was saying
very, very important things
599
00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:15,204
that I had never thought of before.
600
00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:18,833
To the Negro kids,
to the Puerto Rican kids,
601
00:40:19,458 --> 00:40:23,712
to the Chinese kids,
to every nationality, listen to this.
602
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:30,719
Wear your nationality like a flag.
Be proud of it.
603
00:40:30,803 --> 00:40:33,639
Be proud you're Puerto Rican,
be proud you're Negro.
604
00:40:33,722 --> 00:40:35,391
[cheering]
605
00:40:35,474 --> 00:40:39,103
For the very first time in my life,
I felt very useful.
606
00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:41,105
I loved it.
607
00:40:41,188 --> 00:40:44,150
Number one, I was getting attention.
[laughs]
608
00:40:44,233 --> 00:40:46,527
Always and ever the actress, right?
609
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:52,491
[Jackie]
She is very uncommon in Hollywood.
610
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:57,371
She really cares about issues.
I mean, I'll talk to her from time to time
611
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:01,083
and she is as knowledgeable
on current issues
612
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:04,837
that I may be debating
as someone on my staff.
613
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,716
And then she is just full of
you-know-what and vinegar.
614
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:10,426
[laughs]
615
00:41:10,509 --> 00:41:11,969
Hello.
616
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:15,181
Oh, Rita, you're here. My God.
617
00:41:15,264 --> 00:41:18,434
I didn't know you were coming.
[laughs]
618
00:41:18,517 --> 00:41:22,354
-How are you?
-Hi. Look at this joint.
619
00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:26,066
This joint. That's, uh… That's precisely
what Rita would call this, a joint.
620
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:27,610
-Oh, this is fantas--
-You know.
621
00:41:27,693 --> 00:41:30,654
-Why are those teddy bears priced?
-Oh, because
622
00:41:30,738 --> 00:41:32,740
-that pink teddy bear is more expensive…
-[Rita chuckles]
623
00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:34,074
…than the blue teddy bear.
624
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,285
-Because it's a girl?
-Yes.
625
00:41:36,368 --> 00:41:37,953
-Are you serious?
-I'll show you.
626
00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:42,041
[Jackie] The same, um, company,
the exact same teddy bear.
627
00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:43,292
From the same company?
628
00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:45,711
[Jackie] Same company. Look at it.
I mean, they're identical.
629
00:41:46,629 --> 00:41:47,922
-Twenty-eight.
-[Jackie] Thirty-one.
630
00:41:48,005 --> 00:41:50,549
Thirty-one for the girl!
631
00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:52,301
[Jackie] I've been working on it
for about six months.
632
00:41:52,384 --> 00:41:55,971
We're introducing the bill
for National Women's History Month.
633
00:41:56,055 --> 00:42:00,351
-What's the bill?
-It's going to repeal the gender tax.
634
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,937
-There's a gender tax?
-[Jackie] The Pink Tax.
635
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:05,606
The Pink Tax Repeal Act
is what we're calling it.
636
00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:07,191
Anyway, that's why they're in here.
637
00:42:07,274 --> 00:42:08,817
But I have more,
do you want to see more items?
638
00:42:08,901 --> 00:42:10,569
-Yeah.
-[laughs]
639
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:18,786
-Chin up. And now eyes open.
-[Rita] Okay.
640
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:22,331
[photographer] Yes. Yes. Gorgeous. Yes.
641
00:42:23,082 --> 00:42:28,170
The struggles involving being a female
in the industry of making art…
642
00:42:28,254 --> 00:42:29,797
[laughs]
…are many.
643
00:42:30,589 --> 00:42:36,428
If you look at cinema,
most of the movies include one woman.
644
00:42:37,137 --> 00:42:38,180
At least one.
645
00:42:38,764 --> 00:42:40,432
But they all include men.
646
00:42:42,685 --> 00:42:45,437
It really has to do with the people
who call the shots
647
00:42:45,938 --> 00:42:47,898
deciding that they're going
to go out on a limb
648
00:42:47,982 --> 00:42:50,526
and tell a different story
in a different lens.
649
00:42:52,403 --> 00:42:53,529
So…
[chuckles]
650
00:42:53,612 --> 00:42:55,823
…you know, in so many ways,
651
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:59,159
we always have to prove we're worthwhile.
652
00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:02,037
That's a lot of work. It's exhausting.
653
00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:04,999
[Eva] It's very disappointing
because what happens is,
654
00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:06,584
you don't get our perspective
655
00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:08,627
and you don't get to see
stories through our lens.
656
00:43:09,795 --> 00:43:13,090
We're not a special interest group,
we're half the population of this globe.
657
00:43:25,519 --> 00:43:27,187
[Rita hums]
658
00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:33,402
This is a rehearsal, this picture,
during the filming of West Side Story.
659
00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:37,323
And as you can see,
the boys are dancing in this direction.
660
00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:38,741
They're doing a rehearsal.
661
00:43:39,241 --> 00:43:42,911
I am doing a rehearsal
going in the other direction.
662
00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:45,956
This is not posed.
I was constantly rehearsing
663
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:50,628
because I felt that I wasn't up
to the talents of the young dancers.
664
00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:54,340
So, I was constantly like this.
I never took a break.
665
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,552
Whenever there was a ten-minute break,
I'd get up and do this again.
666
00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,429
I'd just rehearse
and rehearse and rehearse.
667
00:44:01,055 --> 00:44:03,349
So, rehearsal pays.
668
00:44:05,934 --> 00:44:08,812
You know, she has a mother. Also a father.
669
00:44:08,896 --> 00:44:11,106
They do not know this country
any better than she does.
670
00:44:11,190 --> 00:44:12,608
And you do not know it at all.
671
00:44:12,691 --> 00:44:17,029
Girls here are free to have fun.
She is in America now.
672
00:44:17,112 --> 00:44:19,782
Puerto Rico is in America now.
673
00:44:19,865 --> 00:44:20,783
Ugh!
674
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:27,206
Sometimes I don't know which is thicker,
your skull or your accent.
675
00:44:29,583 --> 00:44:31,960
[Rita] What was different
about Anita in West Side Story
676
00:44:32,044 --> 00:44:34,838
is that she was a girl
who respected herself,
677
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:37,966
who had a certain amount of dignity.
678
00:44:38,050 --> 00:44:41,470
Actually, she became my role model,
I… since I never had one.
679
00:44:41,553 --> 00:44:44,056
She had a… a sense of herself.
680
00:44:45,057 --> 00:44:47,184
She was proud of herself and she spoke up.
681
00:44:47,267 --> 00:44:49,019
First, settle your stomach.
682
00:44:49,103 --> 00:44:50,229
Never mind my stomach.
683
00:44:50,312 --> 00:44:54,316
Well, I mind
your nose and your head broken.
684
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:55,818
-Broken?
-Sure.
685
00:44:55,901 --> 00:44:58,320
They use Maria for an excuse
to start World War III.
686
00:44:58,404 --> 00:45:03,075
She did not cower as I did
so many times so many years ago.
687
00:45:03,158 --> 00:45:07,037
So, I loved her. She was wonderful.
I loved playing her.
688
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:13,085
When you look and you think, "Oh, yeah,
you are your own heroine, you know.
689
00:45:13,168 --> 00:45:16,588
You are the woman that you are playing
690
00:45:17,464 --> 00:45:20,676
that you want to be
to… to guide you to go forward."
691
00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:25,264
You know, that's not easy to do,
but she did it.
692
00:45:25,347 --> 00:45:26,890
She was only dancing.
693
00:45:26,974 --> 00:45:29,893
With an American who's really a Pollack.
694
00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:32,604
-Says the spic.
-[ensemble] Ooh!
695
00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:37,192
Anita is fiercely independent.
Her relationship with Bernardo
696
00:45:37,276 --> 00:45:38,944
has to do with control.
697
00:45:39,027 --> 00:45:41,321
There are all these power dynamics
between men and women
698
00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:43,115
in that culture at that time.
699
00:45:44,199 --> 00:45:46,368
Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.
700
00:45:46,452 --> 00:45:49,663
Hey, look. Instead of a shampoo,
she's been brainwashed.
701
00:45:49,746 --> 00:45:51,540
-Stop it.
-She has given up Puerto Rico,
702
00:45:51,623 --> 00:45:56,962
-and now she's queer for Uncle Sam.
-Oh, no. That's not true.
703
00:45:57,963 --> 00:46:04,052
♪ Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion ♪
704
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:08,390
♪ Let it sink back in the ocean ♪
705
00:46:08,474 --> 00:46:10,893
[Rita]
The verse originally went like this.
706
00:46:11,477 --> 00:46:16,440
♪ Puerto Rico, you ugly island ♪
707
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:21,653
♪ Island of tropic diseases ♪
708
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:24,406
I'll stop there because
709
00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:26,492
that's a… that's a…
[gasps]
710
00:46:26,575 --> 00:46:31,079
♪ Always the hurricanes blowing ♪
711
00:46:31,163 --> 00:46:34,500
♪ Always the population growing ♪
712
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:35,834
[ensemble exclaims]
713
00:46:35,918 --> 00:46:37,920
♪ And the money owing ♪
714
00:46:38,837 --> 00:46:41,215
♪ And the sunlight streaming ♪
715
00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:44,092
♪ And the natives steaming ♪
716
00:46:44,718 --> 00:46:48,263
♪ I like the island Manhattan ♪
717
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:49,932
I know you do.
718
00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:54,520
I remember that when I got the part
and I worked so hard to get that part,
719
00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:57,397
the first thing that came to my mind was,
720
00:46:58,607 --> 00:47:02,110
"Oh, my God. She sings that.
721
00:47:03,570 --> 00:47:04,863
I can't do that."
722
00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:06,073
In the "America" number,
723
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:09,284
there were some Puerto Ricans
that feel some lines of that number
724
00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:11,620
are particularly denigrating
for Puerto Ricans.
725
00:47:11,703 --> 00:47:13,247
Everything is great in the United States
726
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:15,415
and everything is terrible
in Puerto Rico, that dichotomy.
727
00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:18,168
I think there's a lot of Puerto Ricans
that don't share that view,
728
00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:21,922
uh, and feel that that is
a… a denigrating picture of Puerto Rico.
729
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:25,384
♪ Life can be bright in America ♪
730
00:47:25,467 --> 00:47:27,553
♪ If you can fight in America ♪
731
00:47:27,636 --> 00:47:30,055
♪ Life is all right in America ♪
732
00:47:30,138 --> 00:47:32,808
♪ If you're all white in America ♪
733
00:47:32,891 --> 00:47:35,936
Here's what people miss.
That's Anita's view.
734
00:47:36,645 --> 00:47:40,274
That is not the director
or the playwright,
735
00:47:40,357 --> 00:47:45,571
it's not Rita Moreno either.
It's Rita Moreno playing Anita,
736
00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:49,741
who doesn't want any part of Puerto Rico
'cause she's in America now.
737
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:51,034
That's what she says.
738
00:47:51,118 --> 00:47:52,494
♪ America! ♪
739
00:47:53,412 --> 00:47:54,830
♪ America! ♪
740
00:47:54,913 --> 00:47:57,749
Some people that watched
West Side Story during the '60s
741
00:47:57,833 --> 00:48:01,712
felt ashamed of being Puerto Rican
and… and also angry
742
00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:04,923
that they would be portrayed
in the big screen
743
00:48:05,007 --> 00:48:09,261
for everybody to see
as criminals and oversexualized people.
744
00:48:09,344 --> 00:48:11,471
At its core, it is a well-meaning show,
745
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:14,474
but the effect of it
being such a worldwide success,
746
00:48:14,558 --> 00:48:15,809
particularly the movie,
747
00:48:15,892 --> 00:48:19,104
is that that was many people's
first exposure to Puerto Rican people
748
00:48:19,187 --> 00:48:21,023
and it's not one
that we created ourselves.
749
00:48:21,106 --> 00:48:22,941
[Frances] So on the one hand,
you might have a pull
750
00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:25,235
towards, uh, feeling uncomfortable
with that scene.
751
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:28,905
On the other hand, Rita Moreno's
performance is so exceptional.
752
00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:32,868
She takes that role
that's limited to begin with
753
00:48:32,951 --> 00:48:36,204
and in… in overcoming
the limitations of the role
754
00:48:36,997 --> 00:48:42,294
and demonstrating, uh, the power
of a Puerto Rican woman's performance,
755
00:48:42,377 --> 00:48:44,379
she challenges the stereotype.
756
00:48:47,132 --> 00:48:51,845
[Julia] In West Side Story, she takes us
through the joy and the tragedy
757
00:48:51,928 --> 00:48:55,766
of living as a Puerto Rican woman
in the United States at that time.
758
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:58,477
And she plays it so well
759
00:48:59,061 --> 00:49:02,481
that it's very hard
to think of West Side Story
760
00:49:02,564 --> 00:49:04,733
without thinking of her as Anita.
761
00:49:04,816 --> 00:49:07,277
♪ Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha! Cha-cha! ♪
762
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:09,696
[Rita] When I did the scene
in the candy store,
763
00:49:09,780 --> 00:49:11,114
I used to call it the rape scene
764
00:49:11,198 --> 00:49:12,282
[man 1] Get her!
765
00:49:12,366 --> 00:49:14,910
…where the boys attack Anita.
766
00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:18,872
[men shout]
Come on! Come on!
767
00:49:18,955 --> 00:49:20,916
[Anita screams]
768
00:49:22,751 --> 00:49:23,835
[man] Stop it!
769
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:26,088
[Rita]
We did that scene many, many times.
770
00:49:26,171 --> 00:49:31,426
And they kept calling me Bernardo's…
Bernardo's pig and-and-and, uh…
771
00:49:32,094 --> 00:49:36,473
And all kinds of…
all kinds of terrible, terrible names.
772
00:49:37,307 --> 00:49:40,560
And I just suddenly, I left the scene,
773
00:49:41,311 --> 00:49:47,734
I pushed the boys away
and just started to cry and cry and cry.
774
00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:51,321
I could not stop crying.
775
00:49:55,033 --> 00:49:58,787
And all of the wounds
that I thought had closed,
776
00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:03,583
all the scars opened all over again.
777
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:06,503
It was just astonishing.
778
00:50:07,629 --> 00:50:10,298
Bernardo was right.
[sobs]
779
00:50:11,591 --> 00:50:16,596
If one of you was lying
in the street bleeding,
780
00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:19,307
I'd walk by and spit on you.
781
00:50:19,391 --> 00:50:21,810
[man 3] Don't let her go. She'll tell
Chino that Tony's hiding in the cellar.
782
00:50:21,893 --> 00:50:23,478
Don't you touch me!
783
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:31,069
After she pulls herself together
and… and then she says, "Don't you…"
784
00:50:31,153 --> 00:50:34,698
Four words, but she says it with such…
785
00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:40,871
depth and… and… and power,
it's so fantastic.
786
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:49,921
Because of the breadth of Rita's career,
one project or another will resonate.
787
00:50:50,005 --> 00:50:52,257
For some people, it's West Side Story.
788
00:50:52,883 --> 00:50:56,136
But for me, the breakthrough for Rita,
789
00:50:57,596 --> 00:51:02,476
I believe, is when
after her attempted suicide,…
790
00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:06,855
she said, "I'm going to live.
791
00:51:08,023 --> 00:51:11,943
I am not going to quit.
I'm not going to give up."
792
00:51:12,778 --> 00:51:17,824
When I tried to do away with myself,
793
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:23,580
I wanted to do it
because I couldn't take the pain anymore
794
00:51:23,663 --> 00:51:28,293
of the relationship
I had with Marlon Brando.
795
00:51:29,085 --> 00:51:33,048
It was humiliating
and I was letting him step all over me.
796
00:51:34,216 --> 00:51:37,552
And I hated myself so much,
it was a very strange reason.
797
00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:39,387
Most people I don't think do this.
798
00:51:39,971 --> 00:51:43,058
I wanted to get rid of myself
because I didn't think I deserved to live.
799
00:51:44,684 --> 00:51:46,645
And I took the pills.
800
00:51:48,647 --> 00:51:53,318
When I got home from the hospital
and I survived the attempt,
801
00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:56,613
I went back into therapy
802
00:51:58,490 --> 00:52:01,660
and stayed in therapy
for about another month.
803
00:52:01,743 --> 00:52:03,578
And then I said,
"I think it's time for me to go,
804
00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:05,747
I think I've done what I had to do.
805
00:52:06,289 --> 00:52:09,835
I have exorcised this man from my life."
806
00:52:18,677 --> 00:52:21,763
There are things about me
that I… that still hurt.
807
00:52:22,931 --> 00:52:25,684
And it takes me back
to being a little girl again
808
00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:28,186
and being, um, maligned.
809
00:52:28,854 --> 00:52:32,774
But I can't seem
to get rid of that… that hurt.
810
00:52:33,608 --> 00:52:40,073
But I think sometimes there are wounds
that simply don't heal well.
811
00:52:42,951 --> 00:52:44,744
The insanity!
[chuckles]
812
00:52:45,620 --> 00:52:48,790
Seven years after I attempted
to end my life over Marlon,
813
00:52:48,874 --> 00:52:51,626
I'm making a movie with Marlon.
814
00:52:53,003 --> 00:52:55,672
I just wanted to know
where you were last night.
815
00:52:56,965 --> 00:52:58,258
Where do you think I was?
816
00:52:59,676 --> 00:53:02,262
You talked to my brother
until six o'clock in the morning?
817
00:53:02,345 --> 00:53:05,682
We do the scene and we do our dialogue.
818
00:53:05,765 --> 00:53:08,143
Oh, no. We… I went down
to the whorehouse first
819
00:53:08,226 --> 00:53:10,103
and then we had a lot of girls downstairs
820
00:53:10,186 --> 00:53:12,355
-drinking beer.
-Ugh! Oh, oh, I see. Which whorehouse?
821
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:15,734
And I haul off and smack him on the face.
822
00:53:15,817 --> 00:53:20,697
-Liar!
-And he hauls off and smacks me back.
823
00:53:20,780 --> 00:53:22,282
Don't you hit me!
824
00:53:22,365 --> 00:53:25,869
That opened an old scar
825
00:53:27,329 --> 00:53:31,249
of when he would take advantage of me,
when he had other women.
826
00:53:31,333 --> 00:53:34,502
Pond scum came to the surface.
827
00:53:35,253 --> 00:53:37,881
And I started screaming at him.
828
00:53:37,964 --> 00:53:39,966
-I'll just go to the other bedroom!
-Oh, shut up.
829
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:42,135
Damn it!
[screams]
830
00:53:42,218 --> 00:53:44,846
And they never stopped filming.
The director loved it,
831
00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,767
knowing that those were
very personal tears,
832
00:53:49,309 --> 00:53:51,686
hav-having nothing to do with the scene.
833
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:56,066
I think it gave me closure,
really, because I at least
834
00:53:56,149 --> 00:54:00,153
was able to get even
with him in my very childish way.
835
00:54:02,614 --> 00:54:06,159
[Tony]
I think her breakthrough is post-Brando.
836
00:54:07,035 --> 00:54:09,371
And she's coming out of that darkness.
837
00:54:10,288 --> 00:54:11,665
And she's…
838
00:54:14,292 --> 00:54:16,211
facing a crisis in her life.
839
00:54:17,003 --> 00:54:20,632
Having to examine yourself
840
00:54:21,132 --> 00:54:24,344
and finding value in yourself
841
00:54:24,427 --> 00:54:29,099
is the only way to become a whole person.
842
00:54:29,182 --> 00:54:30,600
It's the only way.
843
00:54:30,684 --> 00:54:34,229
And I think that
the only way is, uh, therapy.
844
00:54:34,312 --> 00:54:38,024
And I think
she chooses the road less traveled.
845
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:42,237
And I think
it's why she's got all these awards.
846
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,615
[announcer] Show you what it's like
in Hollywood on Oscar night.
847
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:49,119
The stars arriving
and the general feeling of excitement
848
00:54:49,202 --> 00:54:53,289
that is here on this biggest of all nights
for the motion picture industry.
849
00:54:53,373 --> 00:54:58,086
[George] The car came to pick me up first
and then we went and we picked up Rita.
850
00:54:58,586 --> 00:55:01,965
And she said,
"I'm practicing my loser's face."
851
00:55:02,048 --> 00:55:03,299
[laughs]
852
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:05,468
We made all kinds of sour grapes speeches
853
00:55:05,552 --> 00:55:08,013
in the big limousine
that Goldwyn Studios had hired for us
854
00:55:08,096 --> 00:55:11,141
on the way to the theater
because we were so sure we wouldn't win,
855
00:55:11,224 --> 00:55:13,018
and we made up these hilarious speeches.
856
00:55:13,101 --> 00:55:16,396
"I didn't want it anyway and it's
a lousy movie" and all that kind of stuff.
857
00:55:17,022 --> 00:55:18,648
[announcer]
Natalie Wood making her entrance.
858
00:55:21,609 --> 00:55:23,236
[Rita] On Oscar night,
859
00:55:23,319 --> 00:55:27,157
my friend told me, who lived
in the Hispanic ghetto, the barrio,
860
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,201
she said all the windows were open
because it was very, very hot
861
00:55:30,285 --> 00:55:34,831
and you could hear
the Oscars on all the television sets.
862
00:55:34,914 --> 00:55:37,125
And when Rock Hudson came on and said,
863
00:55:37,208 --> 00:55:41,379
"The nominees for Best Featured Actress…"
864
00:55:41,921 --> 00:55:44,507
Judy Garland in Judgment at Nuremberg.
865
00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:48,386
…the place went stone quiet.
866
00:55:48,470 --> 00:55:53,099
And Rita Moreno in West Side Story.
May I have the envelope, please?
867
00:55:56,561 --> 00:55:57,771
[exhales]
868
00:55:58,646 --> 00:56:01,232
-Rita Moreno in West Side Story.
-[applause]
869
00:56:02,108 --> 00:56:06,362
[Rita] And when he called my name out,
the place went crazy.
870
00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:09,616
Latinos were sticking their heads
out the windows screaming,
871
00:56:09,699 --> 00:56:12,160
"She did it! She did it!"
872
00:56:13,745 --> 00:56:17,665
All I remember thinking was,
I mustn't run to the stage.
873
00:56:17,749 --> 00:56:19,292
I must have dignity.
874
00:56:19,375 --> 00:56:22,212
And it was so hard
not to just run up there
875
00:56:22,295 --> 00:56:25,173
and grab it out
of the arms of Rock Hudson,
876
00:56:25,673 --> 00:56:27,342
who was the fellow who gave it to me.
877
00:56:27,425 --> 00:56:29,719
[applause continues]
878
00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:35,391
-I can't believe it!
-[laughter]
879
00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:38,728
Good Lord. I'll leave you with that.
880
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:42,065
-[laughter]
-[applause]
881
00:56:42,148 --> 00:56:44,109
[reporter] Rita,
what's on your mind at this moment?
882
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,987
Absolute awe. I can't believe it.
883
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:50,615
I really can't.
Well, I… I guess I can now.
884
00:56:50,698 --> 00:56:54,035
-But at the moment, I couldn't.
-[reporter] George?
885
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:56,538
[Fernanda] My mother really
makes no secret of the fact
886
00:56:56,621 --> 00:57:01,417
that she still is under the influence
of the little girl that she was,
887
00:57:01,501 --> 00:57:04,420
the Rosita who was insecure
888
00:57:04,504 --> 00:57:10,385
and felt like had to kind of gird herself
to try to be what she wanted to be.
889
00:57:10,468 --> 00:57:12,470
[reporter] West Side Story
seems to be the big one.
890
00:57:12,554 --> 00:57:14,264
What are you going to do
for an encore now?
891
00:57:14,347 --> 00:57:16,808
-It's hard to follow.
-Yeah, you can't follow it.
892
00:57:16,891 --> 00:57:20,478
Then I see that juxtaposition
with what she's become
893
00:57:20,562 --> 00:57:24,315
with such, so much self-assurance
and confidence.
894
00:57:24,399 --> 00:57:27,277
I was handed this beautiful golden man.
895
00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:32,824
-And I just said, "I don't believe it!"
-The shortest speech ever.
896
00:57:32,907 --> 00:57:35,326
Well, you do believe
that I wasn't prepared for it, right?
897
00:57:35,410 --> 00:57:37,412
I've been trying
to make up for it since then
898
00:57:37,495 --> 00:57:41,416
with long acceptance speeches.
That's all I could come up with.
899
00:57:41,499 --> 00:57:43,209
Really thrilling and touching speech.
900
00:57:43,293 --> 00:57:45,003
-"I don't believe it!"
-[laughter]
901
00:57:45,086 --> 00:57:49,257
You also have one of the shortest
Oscar speeches on record, correct?
902
00:57:49,340 --> 00:57:54,429
I did not expect to win.
I thought Judy Garland would.
903
00:57:54,512 --> 00:57:56,890
Had you, um, spent more time
up there at the podium,
904
00:57:56,973 --> 00:57:59,058
what… who would you thank,
what would you have said?
905
00:57:59,142 --> 00:58:03,104
-Glad you asked.
-[laughter]
906
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:07,108
But I know that she still goes
through stage fright sometimes
907
00:58:07,192 --> 00:58:11,571
and still feels inadequate.
So, yeah, there's a dichotomy.
908
00:58:11,654 --> 00:58:15,033
The beauty of Rita is
how she is in touch with who she is,
909
00:58:15,116 --> 00:58:17,785
the integrity of the person.
910
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:19,829
The joy of Rosita.
911
00:58:21,873 --> 00:58:23,208
But the curse of Rosita.
912
00:58:23,833 --> 00:58:26,461
And here she is, Miss Rita Moreno.
913
00:58:26,544 --> 00:58:29,088
[applause]
914
00:58:29,172 --> 00:58:32,300
You know, now that you've won
an Academy Award,
915
00:58:32,383 --> 00:58:35,762
I imagine you're sort of anxious
to do more pictures, aren't you?
916
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:37,597
Well, yes,
there's several I'm considering,
917
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,391
but I have to be careful
to find the right part.
918
00:58:40,475 --> 00:58:44,395
Oh, I know. I know what you mean.
I have the same problem.
919
00:58:44,479 --> 00:58:47,690
[laughter]
920
00:58:48,900 --> 00:58:51,945
Jack, you haven't made
a picture for 20 years.
921
00:58:52,028 --> 00:58:55,907
-Do you see how careful I am?
-[laughter]
922
00:59:00,578 --> 00:59:04,791
[Rita] After West Side Story,
believe it or not, I could not find work.
923
00:59:04,874 --> 00:59:07,168
-[woman] What?
-[indistinct laughter]
924
00:59:07,252 --> 00:59:09,254
-That's what I say.
-[laughter]
925
00:59:09,337 --> 00:59:11,381
I was offered some things,
926
00:59:11,464 --> 00:59:14,300
but they were all
these Latina characters in gang movies.
927
00:59:14,884 --> 00:59:16,010
So I just said no.
928
00:59:16,094 --> 00:59:18,263
You know, I tucked my little gold man
under my arm, I said,
929
00:59:18,346 --> 00:59:21,182
"Uh-uh. I'm not going to do
that stuff anymore with the accents."
930
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:25,937
I did some television.
I did summer theater, that kind of thing.
931
00:59:26,020 --> 00:59:31,484
So I was working, but I didn't do
one bloody movie for seven years.
932
00:59:32,485 --> 00:59:37,073
After London, I got my very first
leading lady part on Broadway.
933
00:59:37,156 --> 00:59:42,370
And I was so excited.
Broadway was really big stuff.
934
00:59:43,413 --> 00:59:46,666
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
didn't even last a week.
935
00:59:46,749 --> 00:59:47,667
[chuckles]
936
00:59:48,209 --> 00:59:50,420
But that's when I met Lenny.
937
00:59:51,588 --> 00:59:54,882
[Fernanda] My father had
a patient in his practice
938
00:59:54,966 --> 00:59:58,094
who was this Jewish psychologist
named Leah.
939
00:59:58,177 --> 01:00:00,346
She got them both
to a dinner at her house.
940
01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:06,144
My father was completely entranced.
So he asked her out for New Year's Eve.
941
01:00:06,227 --> 01:00:10,690
He's like this normal, stable guy,
so she's immediately suspicious.
942
01:00:10,773 --> 01:00:12,150
[laughs]
943
01:00:12,233 --> 01:00:13,651
Like, "What? This can't be good."
944
01:00:13,735 --> 01:00:16,779
She's not attracted to guys like that,
she's attracted to, like, wild men
945
01:00:16,863 --> 01:00:18,948
who were self-destructive geniuses.
946
01:00:19,032 --> 01:00:23,494
She said, "Okay, pick me up
at the theater at 10:30."
947
01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:27,332
And he didn't really ask questions. So…
[chuckles]
948
01:00:27,415 --> 01:00:30,293
he goes to the theater
all dressed up on New Year's Eve.
949
01:00:30,376 --> 01:00:32,629
And people start to trickle out
and he's looking for her.
950
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:33,796
She stood him up.
951
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:38,134
He's furious, like,
"How could she stand me up?"
952
01:00:38,217 --> 01:00:42,180
Rita's in her dressing room,
"Where's Lenny? He stood me up."
953
01:00:42,263 --> 01:00:43,181
[laughs]
954
01:00:43,264 --> 01:00:47,018
-"How could I be stood up by this guy?"
-It's now, like, 11 o'clock at night
955
01:00:47,101 --> 01:00:49,604
and he starts to walk away
kind of dejected,
956
01:00:49,687 --> 01:00:51,522
walking down the street and he looks back
957
01:00:51,606 --> 01:00:55,860
and he sees "Rita Moreno in
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"
958
01:00:55,943 --> 01:00:57,820
and he's thinking, "Oh, my God."
959
01:00:57,904 --> 01:01:01,658
So he runs back into the theater,
he runs backstage,
960
01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:04,452
and he knocks on her dressing room door
and he opens it and he says,
961
01:01:04,952 --> 01:01:07,872
"Are you the Rita Moreno?"
[laughs]
962
01:01:07,955 --> 01:01:10,833
He has no idea it's Rita Moreno.
Like, that Rita Moreno.
963
01:01:10,917 --> 01:01:13,336
And she's so charmed
964
01:01:13,419 --> 01:01:17,215
that he was so innocent
and he didn't know and that was it.
965
01:01:17,298 --> 01:01:18,841
So they got married six months later.
966
01:01:21,135 --> 01:01:27,266
He liked her for who she was as a person,
not because she was Rita Moreno.
967
01:01:27,350 --> 01:01:30,311
♪ Skies ain't gonna cloud no more ♪
968
01:01:30,395 --> 01:01:31,270
[Tony] She was herself.
969
01:01:31,354 --> 01:01:35,316
♪ Crops ain't gonna fail ♪
970
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,860
["Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe"
by Rita Moreno]
971
01:01:37,944 --> 01:01:43,866
♪ It seems like happiness ♪
972
01:01:44,534 --> 01:01:48,162
♪ Is just a thing called ♪
973
01:01:49,122 --> 01:01:52,667
♪ Joe ♪
974
01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:55,670
♪ He's got a smile ♪
975
01:01:56,212 --> 01:02:01,968
[Tony] Lenny was a really,
really caring, smart, sweet man.
976
01:02:04,512 --> 01:02:07,181
[Fernanda] My mother and father
were a lot of fun together.
977
01:02:08,349 --> 01:02:10,935
My father made my mother laugh so much,
978
01:02:11,018 --> 01:02:13,980
which I think is such a great basis
for a relationship.
979
01:02:14,063 --> 01:02:15,982
My father was very witty.
980
01:02:16,524 --> 01:02:19,277
We would do things
like go out to dinner together
981
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:23,990
and we would play that game
where you see sort of an odd couple
982
01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:26,868
and we would all make up stories
about how they were together
983
01:02:26,951 --> 01:02:28,953
and why they were there
and what were they hiding.
984
01:02:29,036 --> 01:02:31,998
And we were a pretty creative family.
[chuckles]
985
01:02:33,708 --> 01:02:34,625
[laughs]
986
01:02:34,709 --> 01:02:38,671
How are you, sweetie?
Oh, it's so good to see you.
987
01:02:38,755 --> 01:02:41,883
-Tell me about Alexa. How is she?
-She's really good.
988
01:02:41,966 --> 01:02:42,884
Is she good?
989
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:45,094
Have you gotten used
to not being with her?
990
01:02:45,636 --> 01:02:47,597
Yeah, it's hard. Um, but we're like…
991
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,141
For the situation
we're doing really good, actually.
992
01:02:50,224 --> 01:02:51,893
We've kind of established that, like,
993
01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:54,228
we're not going anywhere
for each other any time soon.
994
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:57,356
You really actually…
you really sort of made a pact?
995
01:02:57,899 --> 01:02:59,942
Yeah, well, it's like, kind of,
like, an unspoken, like,
996
01:03:00,026 --> 01:03:02,612
-we're not… we're not fooling around.
-Right.
997
01:03:02,695 --> 01:03:05,031
If your show gets picked up
for a fourth season,
998
01:03:05,114 --> 01:03:06,991
which it should, ob-obviously…
999
01:03:07,074 --> 01:03:08,659
[Rita] Oh, did you see it at all yet?
1000
01:03:08,743 --> 01:03:10,661
-Did you see the…
-I saw the first episode. It's really…
1001
01:03:10,745 --> 01:03:13,623
[Rita] Is that hilarious
with Gloria Estefan?
1002
01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:16,375
-So funny.
-[Rita] Oh, I'm so glad you saw it.
1003
01:03:16,459 --> 01:03:18,669
Did you see The Jimmy Kimmel Show
that I was on?
1004
01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:21,547
-[Justin] It's really good. Really.
-Wasn't that fun?
1005
01:03:21,631 --> 01:03:23,633
-Yeah. And he's really nice.
-[Justin] Yeah.
1006
01:03:23,716 --> 01:03:25,676
[upbeat music]
1007
01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:29,680
[applause]
1008
01:03:29,764 --> 01:03:32,183
[audience cheering]
1009
01:03:41,526 --> 01:03:45,488
Wow. That was a…
that was a fantastic entrance.
1010
01:03:45,571 --> 01:03:47,490
-How are you?
-What a band!
1011
01:03:47,573 --> 01:03:49,534
-Thank you. Thank you very much. They're…
-What a show!
1012
01:03:49,617 --> 01:03:52,453
Yeah, so I taught them all
to play their instruments.
1013
01:03:52,537 --> 01:03:54,038
I wonder if you have any idea
1014
01:03:54,121 --> 01:03:57,500
what a major figure you are
in my life and my childhood.
1015
01:03:57,583 --> 01:03:59,126
-In your life?
-Yes, in my life.
1016
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:02,046
I mean, first of all,
West Side Story the album
1017
01:04:02,129 --> 01:04:04,715
was one of, like, only six albums
we had in our house
1018
01:04:04,799 --> 01:04:07,260
and we'd just play it over
and over and over again.
1019
01:04:07,343 --> 01:04:09,887
And The Electric Company, you know, was…
1020
01:04:09,971 --> 01:04:12,431
I mean, that was… that was it for me
as a kid in New York.
1021
01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:14,475
-Wasn't that a great show?
-That was a great show.
1022
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:19,021
♪ We're gonna light up the dark of night
Like the brightest day ♪
1023
01:04:19,105 --> 01:04:23,776
Oh! And Gladys giggled,
Ooh! "Let me glow."
1024
01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:26,279
[Eva] I didn't know her name,
I didn't know anything about her.
1025
01:04:26,362 --> 01:04:28,865
I just knew there was somebody
who looked like me
1026
01:04:28,948 --> 01:04:30,199
on one of my favorite shows.
1027
01:04:30,283 --> 01:04:32,368
[upbeat music]
1028
01:04:33,578 --> 01:04:35,955
[Rita] Those were my bliss years.
1029
01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:39,667
I'd never been so happy
at home and in my career.
1030
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:42,962
Well, you… would you do your phrase
from Electric Company?
1031
01:04:43,045 --> 01:04:46,507
[shouts]
Hey, you guys!
1032
01:04:46,591 --> 01:04:47,717
[applause]
1033
01:04:48,301 --> 01:04:53,139
[whistle blows]
Hey, you guys!
1034
01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:55,057
"Hey, you guys!"
1035
01:04:55,141 --> 01:04:59,687
"Hey, you guys!" is how we would
call out to each other in the house.
1036
01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:02,481
The grown-ups were doing
children's stuff, you know, so…
1037
01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:03,566
Is that heavy?
1038
01:05:04,066 --> 01:05:06,986
We did a lot of off-the-wall stuff
just playing around.
1039
01:05:07,069 --> 01:05:08,112
Watch. Hello.
1040
01:05:08,195 --> 01:05:11,782
I mean, she had this character.
She was a film director.
1041
01:05:11,866 --> 01:05:14,744
And she would always be smacking herself.
1042
01:05:15,536 --> 01:05:16,495
Stop!
1043
01:05:16,579 --> 01:05:18,497
But we were obviously enjoying ourselves.
1044
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,042
-You got salad?
-We got salad.
1045
01:05:21,125 --> 01:05:23,294
-What kind of salad?
-All kinds of salad.
1046
01:05:23,377 --> 01:05:27,632
We got green salad, sardine salad,
tangerine salad, magazine salad,
1047
01:05:27,715 --> 01:05:31,969
jelly bean salad, blue jean salad,
and special today gasoline salad.
1048
01:05:32,053 --> 01:05:35,932
[Rita] I won a Grammy
for the album of the Electric Company.
1049
01:05:36,766 --> 01:05:39,393
I always loved to visit The Muppets set.
1050
01:05:39,477 --> 01:05:42,146
That was one of
the great experiences of my life.
1051
01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:43,814
Jim was…
1052
01:05:44,523 --> 01:05:47,151
It was… it was a chance
to work with a genius.
1053
01:05:47,234 --> 01:05:49,904
I gave him some ideas
that he loved and we used.
1054
01:05:50,571 --> 01:05:53,199
♪ Never know how much I love you ♪
1055
01:05:54,033 --> 01:05:57,078
♪ Never know how much I care ♪
1056
01:05:57,954 --> 01:06:04,168
♪ When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear ♪
1057
01:06:04,251 --> 01:06:06,128
♪ You give me fever ♪
1058
01:06:06,212 --> 01:06:10,883
This gives you a sense of the diversity
of Rita Moreno's career.
1059
01:06:11,384 --> 01:06:14,720
Her career did not take off
after West Side Story
1060
01:06:14,804 --> 01:06:17,640
rising with bigger and better parts.
1061
01:06:18,808 --> 01:06:25,022
Her career widened to encompass
a diversity of roles and media.
1062
01:06:26,941 --> 01:06:30,569
She won her first Emmy
for The Muppet Show.
1063
01:06:31,445 --> 01:06:34,365
[laughter]
1064
01:06:35,074 --> 01:06:38,077
Now that's my kind of woman.
1065
01:06:38,577 --> 01:06:42,873
[Annette] But then a year later, she won
her second Emmy for The Rockford Files.
1066
01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:45,543
[announcer]
The Rockford Files: The Paper Palace.
1067
01:06:45,626 --> 01:06:48,421
[applause]
1068
01:06:48,504 --> 01:06:51,507
[Rita] I mean, oh, my gracious!
1069
01:06:52,133 --> 01:06:53,217
I want to say only…
1070
01:06:53,884 --> 01:06:56,595
I don't know what the hell
I want to say, I'm so excited.
1071
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:58,055
But simply this.
1072
01:06:58,931 --> 01:07:02,977
I can only wish for you that you were me.
1073
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:05,187
-[laughter, applause]
-Thank you.
1074
01:07:06,814 --> 01:07:11,402
The Rita I wrote a part for
was a character she created at a party.
1075
01:07:11,485 --> 01:07:15,781
This ridiculously untalented young actress
who didn't know how bad she was.
1076
01:07:16,407 --> 01:07:19,577
And so I started writing this character
called Googie Gomez.
1077
01:07:19,660 --> 01:07:20,536
And this just came out.
1078
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:22,329
[with accent]
♪ I had a dream ♪
1079
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:24,665
♪ A dream about your baby ♪
1080
01:07:24,749 --> 01:07:28,461
♪ It's gonna come true, baby! ♪
1081
01:07:28,544 --> 01:07:32,715
♪ They think that we're through, but! ♪
1082
01:07:33,507 --> 01:07:36,469
[Frances] She's challenged stereotypes
by actually creating a character,
1083
01:07:36,552 --> 01:07:39,764
Googie Gomez,
whose job pretty much is to expose
1084
01:07:39,847 --> 01:07:41,599
the absurdity of these stereotypes.
1085
01:07:41,682 --> 01:07:45,019
♪ Things look swell ♪
1086
01:07:45,102 --> 01:07:46,854
[Frances] The exaggerated accent,
1087
01:07:47,438 --> 01:07:50,107
uh, the assumptions
about people's intelligence.
1088
01:07:50,191 --> 01:07:55,488
It's an overt critique through art
or an artful critique of stereotypes.
1089
01:07:55,571 --> 01:07:57,573
[singing continues]
1090
01:08:00,868 --> 01:08:03,579
It is a stereotype in a loving sense.
1091
01:08:04,955 --> 01:08:08,042
And I loved her and I got a Tony.
1092
01:08:08,125 --> 01:08:10,586
[applause]
1093
01:08:21,430 --> 01:08:25,267
Finally, I'd like to say,
Miss Supporting Actress,
1094
01:08:25,351 --> 01:08:27,311
who-um-ever you might have been,
1095
01:08:27,394 --> 01:08:31,398
I'm a little bit regretful because
I am the leading lady of The Ritz,
1096
01:08:31,482 --> 01:08:34,193
I'm not a supporting actress. I mean…
1097
01:08:34,276 --> 01:08:36,654
[applause]
1098
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,034
If it was, uh,
if it was up to Googie Gomez,
1099
01:08:42,118 --> 01:08:45,663
who is the character I play in The Ritz,
she would say, "Listen, honey…
1100
01:08:45,746 --> 01:08:46,872
[laughter]
1101
01:08:46,956 --> 01:08:50,417
…the only thing
I support in that show is my beads."
1102
01:08:50,501 --> 01:08:53,796
[laughter, applause]
1103
01:08:54,421 --> 01:08:58,592
[Annette] Rita Moreno was certainly
the very first Latino performer
1104
01:08:58,676 --> 01:09:00,886
to win what is called the EGOT.
1105
01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:04,765
The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
1106
01:09:04,849 --> 01:09:08,310
Pssh! I mean, that's quite
a-an-an amazing achievement.
1107
01:09:08,394 --> 01:09:13,440
Now it seems to be a much bigger deal
and… and a very competitive thing.
1108
01:09:13,524 --> 01:09:16,360
People are like, "I gotta get it."
You know it's like…
1109
01:09:17,736 --> 01:09:18,779
We just were working.
1110
01:09:19,697 --> 01:09:22,658
We didn't know
we could get an EGOT, you know.
1111
01:09:22,741 --> 01:09:24,493
So, we did the work and…
1112
01:09:25,578 --> 01:09:29,540
People saw it and said,
"We… We, uh, we like what you did,
1113
01:09:30,124 --> 01:09:31,625
you know, we like what you did."
1114
01:09:31,709 --> 01:09:32,793
[man] W-W-W-Wait, wait, wait!
1115
01:09:32,877 --> 01:09:36,088
We proudly welcome
to the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
1116
01:09:36,172 --> 01:09:38,549
Miss Rita Moreno.
1117
01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,843
-[Rita yelps]
-[applause, cheering]
1118
01:09:41,677 --> 01:09:45,973
[Rita] I'm 64 and for a woman
in my business at that time,
1119
01:09:46,056 --> 01:09:47,975
you were history.
1120
01:09:48,684 --> 01:09:51,645
But that's when I got my star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1121
01:09:51,729 --> 01:09:54,773
So, I'm thinking,
um, maybe with all this publicity,
1122
01:09:54,857 --> 01:09:56,692
something might come up and, uh…
1123
01:09:57,693 --> 01:10:01,697
a couple of years later, I'm playing
a nun working in a prison on Oz.
1124
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:04,700
Do you enjoy sex with men?
1125
01:10:04,783 --> 01:10:06,660
I enjoy sex, don't you?
1126
01:10:08,078 --> 01:10:10,623
You told me you were married
before you became a nun.
1127
01:10:11,582 --> 01:10:13,209
-You and your husband had great sex.
-Chris.
1128
01:10:13,292 --> 01:10:14,418
I can tell you did.
1129
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:17,046
[chuckles]
I bet you were wild.
1130
01:10:20,424 --> 01:10:21,258
Lint.
1131
01:10:21,342 --> 01:10:23,469
[Tom] The role Rita played on the show
1132
01:10:23,552 --> 01:10:28,641
was one of the basic f-foundations
of the show.
1133
01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:31,644
The reason that I wanted Rita to do it
1134
01:10:31,727 --> 01:10:37,024
was because she just brings
such authority and such honesty
1135
01:10:37,107 --> 01:10:38,692
to whatever's she playing.
1136
01:10:39,193 --> 01:10:43,781
And I thought it would be great amongst
all these rough-and-tumble prisoners
1137
01:10:43,864 --> 01:10:48,827
to have this strong and powerful woman
uh, telling them that they can have sex.
1138
01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:52,581
And so I can't imagine the show
without her now.
1139
01:10:52,665 --> 01:10:54,375
I mean, it… it's inconceivable.
1140
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:57,211
[indistinct chatter]
1141
01:10:58,754 --> 01:11:00,965
You missed our last two sessions. Why?
1142
01:11:01,048 --> 01:11:04,969
On Oz, she was sort of amazing
because she got to use all of herself
1143
01:11:05,052 --> 01:11:08,597
and use more of the Rita I know,
knowing her as a friend.
1144
01:11:08,681 --> 01:11:11,642
She got to be self-righteous,
she got to be flawed,
1145
01:11:11,725 --> 01:11:15,562
she got to be really fucking smart.
1146
01:11:15,646 --> 01:11:16,522
[knocking on door]
1147
01:11:17,147 --> 01:11:19,608
-Everything all right in there, Sister?
-I'm fine.
1148
01:11:19,692 --> 01:11:23,320
[Tom] Rita says to me that
Oz brought her back, but the truth is,
1149
01:11:23,404 --> 01:11:25,489
uh, I don't think she ever went anywhere.
1150
01:11:25,572 --> 01:11:28,909
I think maybe she wasn't getting
the kind of parts she wanted to get.
1151
01:11:29,410 --> 01:11:32,538
I mean, she certainly was great in it,
but she's convinced
1152
01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:35,541
that she… that somehow
Oz brought her back.
1153
01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:37,001
Maybe it did, I don't know.
1154
01:11:38,585 --> 01:11:41,588
When I was in Boston
for the Fourth of July Boston Pops,
1155
01:11:42,131 --> 01:11:46,719
I saw a little T-shirt that said
something I love that was so me.
1156
01:11:46,802 --> 01:11:51,348
And I spent a lot of money
on a gown for tonight's event.
1157
01:11:51,432 --> 01:11:52,766
The critics, you know.
1158
01:11:53,267 --> 01:11:55,352
And then I looked
at that T-shirt and I thought,
1159
01:11:57,521 --> 01:12:01,233
"I love what it says
and it is so who I am."
1160
01:12:01,317 --> 01:12:03,694
So it's the first time
I will not be wearing a gown
1161
01:12:03,777 --> 01:12:06,655
to one of these fancy things.
[laughs]
1162
01:12:07,865 --> 01:12:13,454
Okay, putting on the famous Moreno face
that we all know and love.
1163
01:12:15,956 --> 01:12:16,999
[clears throat]
1164
01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:21,128
It's so funny because there's a song
going through my head that makes me laugh.
1165
01:12:21,712 --> 01:12:23,380
♪ I've got to be me ♪
1166
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,674
[chuckles]
♪ I've got to be me ♪
1167
01:12:27,176 --> 01:12:31,138
While she's putting on makeup
and hiding her me-ness.
1168
01:12:37,811 --> 01:12:39,813
[soft music]
1169
01:12:49,239 --> 01:12:50,074
Yay.
1170
01:12:50,699 --> 01:12:52,409
[Fernanda] My mom and I are very close.
1171
01:12:52,493 --> 01:12:56,872
As an only child, I am so lucky
because I had a cool mom.
1172
01:12:56,955 --> 01:13:00,000
-Wait, do you mean this? This one?
-That one, yeah.
1173
01:13:00,084 --> 01:13:02,920
[reporter] Well, everyone hears so much
about, like, stage mothers
1174
01:13:03,003 --> 01:13:07,049
and mothers in show business.
But what it's like for you?
1175
01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:09,718
-I'm dying to hear all this.
-[reporter, Fernanda chuckle]
1176
01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:13,597
[Fernanda] We love our makeup and
we love our shoes, particularly shoes.
1177
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:15,099
So, she's Big Imelda
1178
01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:16,642
and I'm Little Imelda.
[chuckles]
1179
01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:19,853
Her closet is massive and mine is,
1180
01:13:19,937 --> 01:13:21,772
um, in training.
[chuckles]
1181
01:13:22,356 --> 01:13:26,360
I've also been on the road with her
as her backup singer and dancer,
1182
01:13:26,443 --> 01:13:28,404
traveling like gypsies.
1183
01:13:28,946 --> 01:13:30,572
My mother had a road manager
1184
01:13:30,656 --> 01:13:34,993
and at that time we were doing big shows
like in Vegas and Atlantic City.
1185
01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:40,124
And this road manager one day got sick
on the road and couldn't do the lights.
1186
01:13:40,207 --> 01:13:43,335
And my father, the doctor, said,
1187
01:13:43,836 --> 01:13:46,338
"I can figure this out. I'm a smart guy."
1188
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,758
And he loved it because
he was kind of a control freak.
1189
01:13:51,844 --> 01:13:56,807
He became a show biz/ doctor person.
[laughs]
1190
01:14:00,561 --> 01:14:03,313
You know, every so often they would
get really irritated with each other…
1191
01:14:03,397 --> 01:14:05,858
[chuckles]
…like most married people.
1192
01:14:06,358 --> 01:14:09,862
Um… But for the most part,
they were a pretty amazing couple.
1193
01:14:11,363 --> 01:14:14,032
But you got married
and you got a very romantic husband
1194
01:14:14,116 --> 01:14:16,285
who obviously is like a leg man
or something, you know.
1195
01:14:16,368 --> 01:14:17,870
[laughter]
1196
01:14:17,953 --> 01:14:18,954
She's got great legs.
1197
01:14:19,037 --> 01:14:21,290
Did you end up more Jewish
or did he end up more Puerto Rican?
1198
01:14:21,373 --> 01:14:24,626
I've been… really,
I… I call myself an honorary Jewette.
1199
01:14:24,710 --> 01:14:26,545
-Which is very sweet.
-Yeah.
1200
01:14:26,628 --> 01:14:28,172
But you have a good marriage. It's…
1201
01:14:28,255 --> 01:14:29,423
-Terrific.
-Everybody absolutely gets it.
1202
01:14:29,506 --> 01:14:30,799
We celebrate… just celebrated our nine--
1203
01:14:30,883 --> 01:14:32,342
-our 19th anniversary.
-[Joan] God bless you.
1204
01:14:32,426 --> 01:14:34,094
-That's it.
-[applause]
1205
01:14:35,012 --> 01:14:39,266
Uh, we were really not a good couple,
although everybody thought we were.
1206
01:14:39,808 --> 01:14:40,851
And we played the role.
1207
01:14:41,351 --> 01:14:45,147
In public, we were always
holding hands and nuzzling.
1208
01:14:45,731 --> 01:14:48,233
And, uh, indeed he was sincere.
1209
01:14:48,901 --> 01:14:49,860
I wasn't.
1210
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:55,240
He was a wonderful, loving person.
1211
01:14:56,158 --> 01:14:58,869
But boy, oh, boy, oh, boy,
did we have problems.
1212
01:15:00,621 --> 01:15:03,957
He was a person who just took over.
He was a controller.
1213
01:15:04,541 --> 01:15:06,126
And of course, that's why I married him.
1214
01:15:06,793 --> 01:15:10,589
Until the day when I wanted
to grow up in our relationship
1215
01:15:11,381 --> 01:15:12,799
and it wasn't working.
1216
01:15:17,930 --> 01:15:21,391
I'm a raucous person. I love to laugh.
1217
01:15:21,934 --> 01:15:23,310
And I can get loud.
1218
01:15:24,645 --> 01:15:28,607
And that part of me, he really disliked
that part of me very, very much.
1219
01:15:29,274 --> 01:15:30,776
And I love that part of me.
1220
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:37,074
That's the child in me that I… I think
is just neat and… and fun and swell.
1221
01:15:37,824 --> 01:15:43,205
And, uh, it really bothered him.
He felt embarrassed.
1222
01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:48,710
This is a hell of a subject
when you're trying to do your eyeballs.
1223
01:15:48,794 --> 01:15:52,381
Jesus Christ.
Are we sure we want to do this?
1224
01:15:56,009 --> 01:16:00,973
I don't regret ever having married him.
I mean, look what happened. Fernanda.
1225
01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:06,979
And look what happened,
grandsons whom I just adore.
1226
01:16:07,980 --> 01:16:10,023
So, no, not… I don't regret that,
1227
01:16:10,107 --> 01:16:14,945
but I regret that I stayed
way past the time I should have.
1228
01:16:15,821 --> 01:16:17,656
I was surprised by that
because I knew Lenny.
1229
01:16:18,156 --> 01:16:22,995
And she never shared that with me
when-when-when he was alive.
1230
01:16:23,745 --> 01:16:25,581
Um, so when he passed away
1231
01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:29,126
and-and she got, again,
self-awareness, what…
1232
01:16:29,918 --> 01:16:32,379
She's processing.
She's going back into therapy.
1233
01:16:32,462 --> 01:16:34,464
She's trying to figure out
who she is in this thing.
1234
01:16:34,548 --> 01:16:37,134
And she understands
that some of the patterns
1235
01:16:37,217 --> 01:16:40,554
that have been with her her whole life
are inside of her… of her marriage.
1236
01:16:43,140 --> 01:16:44,766
[Rita] Now I have tears in my eyes.
1237
01:16:46,518 --> 01:16:50,772
Let's stop for a second so I can put
some drops in my eyes, okay?
1238
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:53,233
I'll tell you what happened when he died.
1239
01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:56,903
For one thing, I was
in the hospital room with him
1240
01:16:56,987 --> 01:16:59,990
for… about a month and a half.
1241
01:17:01,992 --> 01:17:07,331
And one day, the… a nurse came in
and she said in the most…
1242
01:17:08,415 --> 01:17:09,625
[exhales]
1243
01:17:09,708 --> 01:17:11,043
…casual way,
1244
01:17:11,668 --> 01:17:15,088
"Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Gordon,
your husband's stopped breathing."
1245
01:17:16,798 --> 01:17:19,343
Just like that. It was…
1246
01:17:21,845 --> 01:17:24,389
And I looked at this thin, frail…
1247
01:17:25,974 --> 01:17:27,100
little body
1248
01:17:28,185 --> 01:17:31,355
that could cause me such angst
1249
01:17:32,272 --> 01:17:35,317
and sadness and joy
1250
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,236
because he was one
of the funniest people in the world
1251
01:17:38,945 --> 01:17:41,114
and who loved me so deeply.
1252
01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:54,169
You know, when Lenny died,
1253
01:17:54,836 --> 01:17:58,298
I gave that needy little Rosita
permission to leave.
1254
01:18:02,386 --> 01:18:06,556
And to answer your question,
which was "Were you relieved?"
1255
01:18:09,309 --> 01:18:11,311
Yes, I was.
1256
01:18:13,063 --> 01:18:16,775
When I came back to California
to this house,
1257
01:18:17,651 --> 01:18:21,655
I asked my assistant
to get me a big glass of wine
1258
01:18:21,738 --> 01:18:24,241
and I sat out in my beautiful courtyard
1259
01:18:27,911 --> 01:18:31,957
and just drank a lot of wine.
1260
01:18:33,375 --> 01:18:36,420
And I thought, "It's over.
1261
01:18:38,255 --> 01:18:41,007
I don't have
to answer to anybody anymore."
1262
01:18:44,344 --> 01:18:46,847
Living alone is really pretty neat.
1263
01:18:47,931 --> 01:18:50,100
Especially when you like
who you're living with.
1264
01:18:52,853 --> 01:18:54,938
No. That does not look good.
1265
01:18:55,021 --> 01:18:57,607
Well, because it's just fighting.
It's fighting this.
1266
01:18:57,691 --> 01:19:00,277
Actually, they probably don't…
shouldn't be long.
1267
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:03,196
No, you know what it is?
It's too… They're too close together.
1268
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,699
You need, like, a stud. More of a…
1269
01:19:05,782 --> 01:19:07,826
-Is this one okay? It's shorter.
-I don't love that.
1270
01:19:07,909 --> 01:19:10,370
You don't love that either. Okay.
1271
01:19:11,496 --> 01:19:12,956
[Rita] What about…
1272
01:19:15,125 --> 01:19:15,959
that?
1273
01:19:16,042 --> 01:19:17,878
[Fernanda]
That's… oh, that's pretty good.
1274
01:19:17,961 --> 01:19:19,588
-That's pretty good.
-[Rita] Okay.
1275
01:19:20,255 --> 01:19:23,842
You've got a geometric thing going
on there. That kind of works, I think.
1276
01:19:23,925 --> 01:19:27,512
I just love that.
I think it's just such a great idea.
1277
01:19:27,596 --> 01:19:28,722
[Fernanda chuckles]
1278
01:19:28,805 --> 01:19:30,474
Don't you? Makes me laugh.
1279
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:34,227
[laughs]
It's such a '70s pant.
1280
01:19:38,148 --> 01:19:41,401
[Rita] But something interesting happened.
My career began to take off.
1281
01:19:41,485 --> 01:19:43,320
Now, how do you figure that?
1282
01:19:44,070 --> 01:19:46,281
It probably had something to do
with my attitude
1283
01:19:46,990 --> 01:19:52,913
and my… profound happiness
at just being me.
1284
01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:55,290
[Norman] Here's your
Television Critics Association
1285
01:19:55,373 --> 01:19:59,377
2018 Lifetime Achievement Honoree,
1286
01:19:59,461 --> 01:20:01,463
the unforgettable Rita Moreno.
1287
01:20:01,546 --> 01:20:05,342
-[applause, cheering]
-[upbeat music]
1288
01:20:17,521 --> 01:20:20,106
-[Rita] Come in.
-Hi. Five minutes.
1289
01:20:20,190 --> 01:20:22,901
-[Rita] Oh, I'm ready. Thank you.
-Okay, perfect. Thank you.
1290
01:20:22,984 --> 01:20:26,238
The role that I love the most
that Rita's played, Lydia.
1291
01:20:27,823 --> 01:20:29,407
Oh!
[chuckles]
1292
01:20:29,491 --> 01:20:30,367
Oh, my gosh.
1293
01:20:30,450 --> 01:20:34,830
I love that character
because you get every bit of her.
1294
01:20:35,455 --> 01:20:36,623
[director] Okay, here we go, guys.
1295
01:20:37,791 --> 01:20:42,379
-[announcer] Rita Moreno!
-[audience cheering]
1296
01:20:43,421 --> 01:20:45,590
[Norman]
We were looking for a grandmother
1297
01:20:46,258 --> 01:20:49,052
and the mother of a glorious actress,
Justina Machado.
1298
01:20:49,803 --> 01:20:51,471
And there's only one Rita Moreno.
1299
01:20:51,555 --> 01:20:53,431
Oh, Rosito, papi.
1300
01:20:53,515 --> 01:20:56,726
Oh, he was so sad because
he asked Chloe out and she said no.
1301
01:20:56,810 --> 01:21:03,316
But what did I tell you?
I said you keep trying. Wear her down.
1302
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:04,776
[laughter]
1303
01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:09,239
-Don't take no for an answer.
-[laughter]
1304
01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:13,493
Lydia is my mom. She is my mom.
That is my mom's accent.
1305
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:17,414
But there's a big caveat here.
1306
01:21:17,497 --> 01:21:22,919
It's easy to fall into caricature
with her because she's so big.
1307
01:21:24,170 --> 01:21:26,756
-It is never over.
-[cheering]
1308
01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:29,801
But I'm big. I'm as big as you get.
1309
01:21:30,302 --> 01:21:33,388
I may be petite, but I am big, that's me.
1310
01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:38,560
But you have to be so careful
with a character like that.
1311
01:21:38,643 --> 01:21:42,147
The stereotype comes from
how others tell our story.
1312
01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:44,149
I'm interested in how we tell our story.
1313
01:21:44,816 --> 01:21:46,401
We're always… They're…
They're going to tell our story
1314
01:21:46,484 --> 01:21:49,487
however they're going to tell it,
and that's what it is.
1315
01:21:49,571 --> 01:21:51,448
Um, but when we tell our story,
1316
01:21:51,531 --> 01:21:53,867
who are we choosing
to… to put up on that screen?
1317
01:21:53,950 --> 01:21:55,744
I think that's another part
of the conversation.
1318
01:21:57,913 --> 01:22:02,792
One of the great secrets of Rita Moreno
is that five-year-old never went anywhere.
1319
01:22:03,585 --> 01:22:05,337
Okay, four, take…
1320
01:22:05,420 --> 01:22:08,089
-Ohh, kichi-kichi-kichi.
-[laughter]
1321
01:22:11,801 --> 01:22:12,761
[Rita] Okay.
1322
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,140
[laughs]
1323
01:22:18,475 --> 01:22:19,684
Oh, ya caught me.
1324
01:22:21,394 --> 01:22:23,980
[Justina] She loves to shock.
Yeah, she just loves it.
1325
01:22:24,064 --> 01:22:28,735
We were at a fundraiser and people
were not donating enough money,
1326
01:22:28,818 --> 01:22:31,404
and nobody was doing anything.
Finally, she got up there.
1327
01:22:31,488 --> 01:22:35,075
She auctioned off a dinner
for her and four people.
1328
01:22:35,158 --> 01:22:38,453
She would cook for 10,000 dollars
and she flashed her boobs.
1329
01:22:38,536 --> 01:22:40,455
And she got that 10,000 dollars.
1330
01:22:40,538 --> 01:22:42,666
[laughs]
1331
01:22:42,749 --> 01:22:44,459
Well, I'm just a dirty old lady.
1332
01:22:44,542 --> 01:22:47,337
I asked the writers.
I said, "Make her sexual.
1333
01:22:47,420 --> 01:22:50,924
Why should, you know, people be…
who are older not be sexual?"
1334
01:22:51,007 --> 01:22:54,511
You don't forget.
And they did that for me.
1335
01:22:55,637 --> 01:22:58,264
Here it goes again.
I will not be able to hear my name.
1336
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:01,601
Who the… who the, uh, uh,
who, uh, who am I?
1337
01:23:03,436 --> 01:23:06,773
[cheering]
1338
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:09,275
[Norman] She is an original.
1339
01:23:10,151 --> 01:23:15,156
And she can't help
but be that every minute of her life.
1340
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:16,491
[cheering]
1341
01:23:17,826 --> 01:23:22,539
So, one gets lost
in her personality happily
1342
01:23:23,289 --> 01:23:25,667
and feels better for being with her.
1343
01:23:27,919 --> 01:23:30,422
When I'm coming home now
with all this crap on my face
1344
01:23:30,505 --> 01:23:32,257
and I have to wash it off,
1345
01:23:34,342 --> 01:23:39,347
and nine o'clock might
as well be 12 midnight right now.
1346
01:23:40,056 --> 01:23:44,853
I'm really, really exhausted.
1347
01:23:50,316 --> 01:23:53,862
[Sonia] At 87 with a hit show on Netflix
1348
01:23:53,945 --> 01:23:57,866
and a movie in the works,
it's a remake of West Side Story,
1349
01:23:58,533 --> 01:24:00,660
she shows no signs of quitting.
1350
01:24:00,744 --> 01:24:03,496
-I love this.
-Yeah, the people walk up there.
1351
01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:06,166
-[Rita] Right.
-[man] You'll see all the shadows.
1352
01:24:06,249 --> 01:24:09,919
This time
with Latino actors in the lead roles.
1353
01:24:10,003 --> 01:24:12,088
[applause. cheering]
1354
01:24:12,797 --> 01:24:13,631
-Not too bad.
-Uh-uh.
1355
01:24:13,715 --> 01:24:15,467
-Not too shabby.
-Not too shabby.
1356
01:24:15,550 --> 01:24:17,927
[Rita]
You want to talk about full circle.
1357
01:24:18,011 --> 01:24:20,805
This is crazy. It is cuckoo.
1358
01:24:21,473 --> 01:24:23,224
What is going on here?
1359
01:24:23,308 --> 01:24:27,353
The gods, the… the stars
and the planets are aligned.
1360
01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:36,821
-I danced with Rita Moreno!
-[laughter]
1361
01:24:36,905 --> 01:24:38,114
[man] One more time.
1362
01:24:38,198 --> 01:24:42,744
[Rita] You know, you think that once
you felt the warm glow of recognition
1363
01:24:42,827 --> 01:24:45,163
you wouldn't fear
the shadows anymore, but…
1364
01:24:46,498 --> 01:24:48,500
You know what? A lot of us still do.
1365
01:24:49,334 --> 01:24:55,590
It's interesting how we keep
dragging our past into the present.
1366
01:24:56,716 --> 01:25:00,261
I am so blessed.
1367
01:25:01,137 --> 01:25:03,515
Damn the shadows and here's to the light.
1368
01:25:03,598 --> 01:25:04,808
Thank you.
1369
01:25:04,891 --> 01:25:06,851
[applause, cheering]
1370
01:25:10,939 --> 01:25:17,487
She ends up becoming Rita Moreno
who is a truth seeker for the work.
1371
01:25:18,905 --> 01:25:23,660
For three or four generations,
if we thought there was no place for us
1372
01:25:24,244 --> 01:25:26,412
in this world of the arts
that we wanted to get into,
1373
01:25:26,496 --> 01:25:29,874
we could look up and see
Rita waving that flag from the moon
1374
01:25:29,958 --> 01:25:33,002
and say, "Okay, well, she could do it.
How close can I get?"
1375
01:25:33,545 --> 01:25:36,840
[Frances] It is her talent
that made her overcome
1376
01:25:36,923 --> 01:25:39,300
all these limitations and challenges.
1377
01:25:39,926 --> 01:25:41,553
One of the questions we could ask is,
1378
01:25:42,303 --> 01:25:45,348
how could she have been
if she hadn't had those limits?
1379
01:25:45,431 --> 01:25:52,147
♪ I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free ♪
1380
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:56,151
♪ I wish I could break ♪
1381
01:25:56,651 --> 01:26:00,655
♪ All the chains holding me ♪
1382
01:26:01,281 --> 01:26:04,033
♪ I wish I could say ♪
1383
01:26:04,576 --> 01:26:08,246
♪ All the things that I should say ♪
1384
01:26:08,329 --> 01:26:12,000
♪ Say 'em loud, oh, say 'em clear ♪
1385
01:26:12,584 --> 01:26:16,087
♪ For the whole round world to hear ♪
1386
01:26:16,713 --> 01:26:19,090
[Eva] Rita's about breaking down barriers.
1387
01:26:19,174 --> 01:26:21,593
[announcer] And the winner is Rita Moreno.
1388
01:26:21,676 --> 01:26:23,094
[cheering]
1389
01:26:23,178 --> 01:26:25,054
[Rock Hudson]
Rita Moreno in West Side Story.
1390
01:26:25,138 --> 01:26:28,057
The Screen Actors Guild
Life Achievement Award,
1391
01:26:28,141 --> 01:26:29,392
Rita Moreno.
1392
01:26:29,475 --> 01:26:32,228
[cheering]
1393
01:26:32,312 --> 01:26:35,648
♪ I wish you could know ♪
1394
01:26:35,732 --> 01:26:39,319
♪ What it means to be me ♪
1395
01:26:40,069 --> 01:26:41,779
[Gloria] I was really drawn to her
1396
01:26:41,863 --> 01:26:45,366
and she made me feel like
women could do anything because she did.
1397
01:26:45,450 --> 01:26:46,993
She was a Latina like me.
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01:26:47,493 --> 01:26:52,749
♪ I wish you could know what it means… ♪
1399
01:26:52,832 --> 01:26:54,334
[Gina] Dear Rita Moreno,
1400
01:26:54,417 --> 01:26:57,045
how do you tell your idol
how much you love her?
1401
01:26:57,587 --> 01:27:01,549
You gave me hope, you gave me
a reason to fight and to speak up.
1402
01:27:01,633 --> 01:27:05,220
You gave me a voice
and when you followed your dreams, Rita,
1403
01:27:05,303 --> 01:27:07,764
you gave me the allowance to follow mine.
1404
01:27:08,264 --> 01:27:11,559
[sobs]
Rita, this is my love letter to you.
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01:27:11,643 --> 01:27:14,354
[applause]
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01:27:14,437 --> 01:27:17,815
["I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel
To Be Free" continues playing]
1407
01:27:17,899 --> 01:27:20,652
[Morgan] If you feel like you're always
being discriminated against,
1408
01:27:20,735 --> 01:27:23,196
you're always angry
and who you're gonna be angry at?
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01:27:24,948 --> 01:27:25,990
Everybody?
1410
01:27:26,074 --> 01:27:28,993
That's poison. You can't do it, you know.
1411
01:27:29,619 --> 01:27:34,457
So, life is what it is. On the one hand.
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01:27:34,540 --> 01:27:36,417
On the other hand,
it's what you make of it.
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01:27:41,130 --> 01:27:45,093
Did having to struggle so much take
something out of me?
1414
01:27:46,719 --> 01:27:47,845
Not me.
1415
01:27:47,929 --> 01:27:49,973
[chuckles]
Not I.
1416
01:27:50,056 --> 01:27:53,685
♪ Then I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah ♪
1417
01:27:53,768 --> 01:27:57,146
♪ Then I'd sing 'cause I'd know ♪
1418
01:27:57,230 --> 01:27:58,189
Hi, honey.
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01:27:59,607 --> 01:28:00,733
[laughs]
1420
01:28:00,817 --> 01:28:03,820
♪ I know how it feels ♪
1421
01:28:04,487 --> 01:28:06,489
I love it. Isn't that fun?
1422
01:28:07,323 --> 01:28:09,826
It is. It's just amazing.
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01:28:09,909 --> 01:28:11,911
["Preciosa" by Rita Moreno]