Rita Moreno: Great Sluts in History

Beverly Diehl
9 min readAug 31, 2020

“This idea lasts through my whole life: I always play a part. For so many years, I have to be a ‘smoldering sexy spitfire.’ Rita Moreno — funny and bold and golden as all her statuettes. The Hispanic heroine with all four gleaming prizes — Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy — big money, hot lovers, ‘perfect’ forty-five-year marriage, with a gold medal hanging around my necks and shelves filled with award statuettes but still, inside, who is she? Who am I? Rosita Dolores Alverio? Or Rita Moreno? Rita or Rosita? Who am I?” from Rita Moreno, A Memoir.

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Beverly Diehl

She/her. Sex-positive, pro-choice, life-positive, polyamorous, breast cancer sur-thriver. With tiara. beverlydiehl.com