Netflix Movies Starring Chita Rivera

What becomes a legend? Broadway's Chita Rivera deservedly earned her status with a limitless talent, an incredible endurance and longevity, perhaps a bit of luck in the gene pool, long and gorgeous gams, lots of pizzazz, and that certain something that has made her a crowd favorite for five decades. The daughter of late musician Pedro del Rivero, Chita was born in 1933 and was training in ballet by age 11 in Washington D.C. She moved to New York with her family and auditioned as a young teenager for choreographer George Balanchine and his School of American Ballet. Quite taken by her potential, she won a scholarship. However, fate took over when at 17 she happened to audition (by accident) for a chorus part in "Call Me Madam" and won it . The rest is musical comedy history. Dancing roles in "Guys and Dolls" and "Can-Can" followed before she was upgraded to featured role status in "Seventh Heaven" and "Mr. Read more on iMDB