Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

90 mins | Documentary | June 18, 2021

Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

90 mins | Documentary | June 18, 2021

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Act III Productions, Artemis Rising, Maramara Films, American Masters Pictures
Original title Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Directors Mariem Pérez Riera
Writers

Cast

Rita Moreno

as Self

Morgan Freeman

as Self

Whoopi Goldberg

as Self

Eva Longoria

as Self

Justina Machado

as Self

Gloria Estefan

as Self

Norman Lear

as Self

Karen Olivo

as Self

George Chakiris

as Self

Marlon Brando

as Self (archive footage)

Gina Rodriguez

as Self

Hector Elizondo

as Self

Tony Taccone

as Self

Mitzi Gaynor

as Self

Annette Insdorf

as Self

Fernanda Gordon

as Self (as Fernanda Gordon Fisher)

Jackie Speier

as Self

Julia Foulkes

as Self

John Ferguson

as Self

Tom Fontana

as Self

Rock Hudson

as Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Kimmel

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Rivers

as Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama

as Self (archive footage)

Todd Grinnell

as Self

America Ferrera

as Self (archive footage)