Rita Moreno

Bush. An irony: Betsy's brother's widow married the older brother of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. In June 2004, she became the first Hispanic to be awarded the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" by President George W. She is buried in the Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. Rita Moreno became the first Puerto Rican to have been awarded the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy's. Betsy returned to Baltimore with her son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. Rita Moreno's real contribution has been her ability to transcend the discriminatory practices of Hollywood and set a precedent for hispanic actors to be recognized by talent rather than ethnicity. Jerome gave in to his brother, returned to the French Navy and married a German princess.

Rita Moreno has participated in more than 50 productions, combining her television, movie and theatrical works. She gave birth to a son in 1805, in London. During the late 1990s, she gained exposure to a new generation of viewers as she played a Catholic nun trained as a psychologist in the popular HBO series, Oz. Jerome returned to France with Betsy but she was denied landing in continental Europe. series. Jerome's brother Napoleon ordered his brother back to France and had the marriage annulled. She also made appearances in the Rockford Files T.V. They were married on December 24, 1803, at a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Baltimore.

Moreno's popularity grew even more in the 1970s when she appeared on the PBS series The Electric Company and the Muppet Show. He was a Catholic, and the wealthiest man in Maryland after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Moreno also appeared in "Singing in the Rain" (1952) and Tennessee Williams "Summer and Smoke". Elizabeth's father, William, had been born in Ireland and came to North America prior to the American Revolutionary War. Rita Moreno married Doctor Lenny Gordon on June 18, 1965, who still remains her husband and manager, and later had a daughter, Fernanda Gordon. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879), known as "Betsy", was the daughter of a Baltimore, Maryland merchant, and was the first wife of Jerome Bonaparte, and sister-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I of France. Moreno was the second person in history to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, the first and only Hispanic entertainer to have done so.

Moreno gained fame and an "Oscar" as the best supporting actress that year. Finally, in 1961 she landed the role of "Anita" in Robert Wises film "West Side Story", an epic film about the lives of the Puerto Ricans in New York during the 1950's. For the next ten years Rita played roles in movies which she felt degrading. She had her first Broadway role by the time she was thirteen, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts.

When she was eleven years old Rita lent her voice to Spanish-language versions of American films. At the age of five Rita and her mother moved to New York. Rosita Dolores Alverio (b.December 11, 1931), born in Humacao, Puerto Rico is better known as Rita Moreno, an actress who has achieved fame both in Hollywood and Broadway.