"Esa es Rita Moreno. La nuestra," said my maternal grandmother Ada Loubriel into the cassette recorder. It was 1976, and I, a precocious 10-year-old documentarian, was recording my family watching a dubbed Spanish version of West Side Story on TV in the Puerto Rican urbanización of San Gerardo. For many Puerto Ricans like my grandmother, Rita Moreno was […] The post Our Rita: How Rita Moreno's triumphs …
SOURCE: PBS at 01:12PM on November 9, 2021