![]() She was calling herself Rosita Moreno, using her stepfather’s last name, when she met with powerful casting agent Bill Grady, who tried some options out. The second order of business was getting a Hollywood-friendly name. Mayer took one look at the teen - who had painted herself up to look like Elizabeth Taylor - and in a matter of seconds said, “Sign her!” She started taking dance lessons a year later and by 16 was discovered by a talent scout, who recommended her to famed producer Louis B. Ruby Dolores Alverio arrived in The Bronx from Puerto Rico as a 5-year-old. “We were locked in the ultimate folie à deux, a crazy love that lasted for years, until one day I quite literally was forced out of a coma and had to choose life over him,” she writes. and how I almost died from loving him,” Moreno, now 81, writes in her new memoir, “Rita Moreno.”Īlthough Moreno’s life story is fascinating on its own - she’s one of the only people, not to mention the first Hispanic, to receive an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony - a sizable chunk of the book, about one-third, is devoted to her torrid love affair with Brando. “I remember how he spoke to me, how he played the drums, how he made love. ![]() Her obsessive love for the Method actor “almost proved fatal.” During their eight-year affair, she endured chronic philandering, emotional abuse, a botched abortion - and that’s only the beginning. Nicolosi.She was fiery and formidable on screen, but off screen, and in the arms of her lover Marlon Brando, Oscar-winning actress Rita Moreno, best known for her role as Anita in “West Side Story,” was reduced to a withering, suicidal mess. This signed Nicolosi Artwork is accompanied by its own Certificate of Authenticity, which is also signed and certified by Dr. You can now bid online on this iconic signed piece of American Pop Culture !Įach Signed Limited Edition Nicolosi Art Print is matted, using the finest museum-quality acid-free paper and archival materials. “Entertainment Tonight” Executive Producer: Linda Bell Blue, dubbed Nicolosi: Included in the Marlon Brando Estate auction was the annotated script from 1972's The Godfather which fetched in excess of $300,000.Įach of the "Kiss" Limited Edition Art Prints by Nicolosi comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity and each Limited-Edition Art Print is individually signed by Nicolosi. The total amount raised from that Marlon Brando Hollywood Memorabilia Auction of his personal belongings was well over $2.3 million. The original photo sold at auction administered by Christies for a record-breaking selling price of $48,000 ! ![]() This was the only piece of Hollywood Memorabilia relating to his film career that Brando displayed in his Mulholland Dr. It is a movie still of Marlon Brando with his co-star, Rita Moreno during a love scene from their 1968 film The Night of the Following Day. The original photo that Nicolosi used as the inspiration for this portrait is a very powerful image of great historical provenance. Nicolosi autographed the original Nicolosi Pop Art portrait in San Francisco as the two were accompanied by California's present Governor Gavin Newsom. Nicolosi was commissioned to create the beautifully sensual Fine Art portrait entitled "Kiss" for Ms. ![]() Autographed Limited Edition Art Print by Nicolosi.
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