Synopsis

A Sample: When Rita Moreno was 13 years old, she made her Broadway debut as Angelica in the play Skydrift. During a preview before the play officially opened, she made a mistake because of her youth. The lead actress, Lilly Valente, was making an emotional speech but getting little reaction from the audience, so Rita, who was eating spaghetti on stage, decided to enliven the scene with comedy. For example, she held her fork above her head and then dropped the spaghetti in her mouth. Ms. Valente, of course, was furious and told Rita afterward, “If you ever, ever do that again, anywhere in the world, I will hear about it, and you will die. I’ll see to it.”