entitleditled -- "rita moreno: a memoir." i cannot begin this without showing a clip from west side story. sinkpuerto rico, let it back in the ocean ♪ ♪ always the hurricane blowing, always the population growing and the money away owing ♪ ♪ and the sunlight, and the native screaming ♪ island, smoke on your spipe ♪ tavis: when you see these clips all these years later, you think what? >> i love it. it takes you back to a time when i finally got a chance to do what i was able to do for years before that where i got to play a real hispanic person, not those things i did forever, where i say, why you know love me no more.o love but i got toy now, do nothing but that, and finally, came this wonderful of a hispanic woman with overuse. ovaries. it was nothing but joy. i was so proud. it is a great film. butdialogue is very dated, it is still a treasure. tavis: you wanted it, and you got it. what did you have to do to get the part? >> i had to audition. is that what you mean? tavis: how difficult or easy was it to land t

how did we get to who -- >> rita moreno? my first film, and no one could announce it right, and i had a stepfather named edward moreno. when i did my first film, the moreno.till says rosita t moreno came --wait a minute. let me get my time straight. when i went to mgm under contract, the casting director called me in, and i thought, i am done. fire me. listen, riter. rositer, we have got to change your name. it is to italian. -- too italian. he came up with some doozies like d.c., -- like daisy. montenegro.id black forest. i kept saying no. i thought, he is not going to let me say no forever. i had better settle. he said, what about rita moreno? i thought, i had better settle. i am going to end of which with orchid. up tavis: this is a gorgeous cover, but it kind of reminds me -- >> does this make you think of elizabeth taylor? tavis: 0, yes. >> the publisher -- i had no role models. for myself.le model the only one i could think of the identified with was this gorgeous creature called elizabeth taylor, so she became my role

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>>> sÍ, yo y rita moreno y muchas gentes, entonces, quieren saber nuestra experiencia, quÉ hicimos, quÉ fueron nuestras bajas y alturas, cuÁndo lloramos, cuÁndo somos felices, fue muy interesante. hubo mucho drama. >>> cuÁl es tu participaciÓn en este programa? >>> es muy importante, porque yo represento a la con el tura y la educaciÓn. cuando vine a este paÍs. raÚl. yo era una niÑa tenÍa 16 aÑos. y me camuflaron sin permiso. me cambiaron la edad a mayor. me tiÑeron el pelo mucho, y mucho maquillaje, para pretender mayor, el Éxito fue que yo ya estaba preparada, si llego sin educaciÓn. >>> sin la preparaciÓn necesaria. >>> sÍ. estaba entrenada por casi 7 aÑos por andrÉs segovia. licenciada en mÚsica, haciendo conciertos con la sinfÓnica en madrid. >>> eso permitiÓ que se diera la oportunidad que se dio, entrarÁs al mercado americano y te convirtieras en lo que eres. >>> sÍ, muchas gracias, no tuve que ir de cama en cama. hay que estudiar, esperar a los 30 aÑos para preÑarse, porque cuando tÚ te preÑas la historia es diferente. un baby en la barriga para todo el