Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021) on Netflix
PG-1320211h 30mBiographyDocumentary
Rita Moreno came from a humble upbringing and faced relentless racism. Across a seventy-year career she refused one-dimensional roles and won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.
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- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Rita Moreno has performed for more than seventy years, and the film follows her from childhood to stardom. It covers her early life and the career that followed, in which a humble upbringing and relentless racism stood in her way. She would not be boxed into one-dimensional stereotypes, and the work brought her into a small group of performers holding an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Her path also cleared ground for Hispanic-American performers after her.
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