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A review by jefener
Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno
4.0
What a lady, what a life. From being taken from Puerto Rico by her mother to start a new life in America without knowing English and leaving her baby brother behind to becoming an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award winning actress, this woman has been through a lot.
I love old Hollywood stories because it's so insane to me to hear about all of the corrupt and abusive things that would happen to these starlets on the daily. Being taken to parties where it was basically a meat market for rich men to pick out young and naïve actresses' to willingly and sometimes unwillingly bed just sounds insane.
Her toxic love with Marlon Brando who is just the most off the wall person with his own issues and then ending up in a marriage that was based on love and then ended up being a cage, Rita Moreno lays all of her triumphs and her tragedies out on the floor. I wish there was more about her mother who was a polarizing person. On one hand she was very much a "I will do everything I need to help my family survive and be on my own including working 3-4 jobs" to also being "I must have a husband at all times". Two very mixed messages. This woman was very ahead of her time in taking a stand against an unfaithful husband but she also had a habit of treating her kids as accessories that can be pushed aside and forgotten.
I am so happy for the woman Rita Moreno is, how far she has come, and everything she stood against to be a working Hispanic in the industry that knew she deserved more than every random racially ambiguous, whore type role everyone tried to cast her in.
I love old Hollywood stories because it's so insane to me to hear about all of the corrupt and abusive things that would happen to these starlets on the daily. Being taken to parties where it was basically a meat market for rich men to pick out young and naïve actresses' to willingly and sometimes unwillingly bed just sounds insane.
Her toxic love with Marlon Brando who is just the most off the wall person with his own issues and then ending up in a marriage that was based on love and then ended up being a cage, Rita Moreno lays all of her triumphs and her tragedies out on the floor. I wish there was more about her mother who was a polarizing person. On one hand she was very much a "I will do everything I need to help my family survive and be on my own including working 3-4 jobs" to also being "I must have a husband at all times". Two very mixed messages. This woman was very ahead of her time in taking a stand against an unfaithful husband but she also had a habit of treating her kids as accessories that can be pushed aside and forgotten.
I am so happy for the woman Rita Moreno is, how far she has come, and everything she stood against to be a working Hispanic in the industry that knew she deserved more than every random racially ambiguous, whore type role everyone tried to cast her in.