Monday, July 18, 2016

Where's My Movie?: Rita Moreno

It's Where's My Movie? Monday! Each month, For Nerdy Girls features an inspirational individual who has changed the world but, for some reason, does not have her own biopic. These women are amazing human beings who should be commemorated as historical game changers in textbooks and statues and monuments. For now, we will discuss them on this internet blog.

(For comparison, Steve Jobs has been portrayed in 11 documentaries, four feature films, and one theatrical production. He created a company that sells phones.)




Name: Rita Moreno

What she does: Rita Moreno is an actor, singer, and dancer.




Why she needs a movie: Rita Moreno has been performing for 67 years and counting. For stamina alone, she deserves all of the applause. The last project I saw her in was an episode of Grey's Anatomy earlier this year, in which she played a forsaken wife who gained back the love of her husband after he sustained a brain injury. She is an inspiration to actors everywhere, especially to Latinas and women of a certain age, as a multi-talented individual who has persevered in spite of the limits that her society has tried to place on her.


 
Gina Rodriguez at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors


Idolized by previous Where's My Movie? luminary Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, fellow Nuyorican Rita Moreno has not only sustained an extensive career in an industry known for its lack of representation of so-called "ethnic minorities" and women over 40; she has also won all of its top awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar (for West Side Story, featured above), and a Tony. And, like another previous Where's My Movie? luminary Dr. Maya Angelou, Rita Moreno has also earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.

And, she was the animated voice of Carmen Sandiego!

Unless she cures cancer on Mars, I don't know what else Rita Moreno would need to accomplish to warrant a biographical feature film.

Coming to a theater near you: American EGOT: The Award-Winning Nights of Rita Moreno



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