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In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno gives her amazing journey from the small woman with easy origins in Puerto Rico  to Hollywood legend—and among the few entertainers, and the only real Hispanic, to get an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys. Created Rosita Dolores Alverio within the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, started on a painful ocean journey along with her mom and wound-up in the severe barrios of the Bronx, where she found dance, singing, and performing as methods to avoid a tumultuous youth. Making her Broadway debut  by age thirteen—and moving forward to Hollywood in its Golden Age just a couple decades later—she labored alongside such celebrities as Gary Cooper,  Yul Brynner, and Ann Miller. When found by Louis W.