Happy birthday to the Nuyorko Rican miscast as many a barefoot Mexican Conchita or Lolita, to Zelda Zanders, the Zip Girl, to The Fabulous Senorita Manuela Rodríguez, to the uncredited Soubrette, who wound up being French, instead of Puerto Rican, to the squaw Honey Bear, to the Cantina Singer of the Garden of Evil, to Ula, another squaw, raped and murdered by a loyal follower of Saint Juniper Sierra, to the Anglo army wife Sandra Roberts, to Tuptim, the ahistorical Burmese slave of the king of Siam, to the gang leader Lola Montalvo of This Rebel Breed, to Anita, sister of Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, to the English speaking Filipina guerilla Sisa who was told, All you Asians look alike, to the Stewardess Vi, who, in a precognitive dream is revealed to be an untrustworthy druggy kidnapper, to the Cuban Lupe (All you Latinas look alike) who is too dumb to realize her boyfriend is Jewish, to the exotic dancer (stripper) Dolores (With an O), to Googie Gomez, a third-rate Puerto Rican entertainer in a gay bath house with visions of Broadway glory who is mistaken him for a man in drag, to Belle Abromowitz, whose brother-in-law lived in the slums of Beverly Hills, and to the first Hispanic to win an Oscar (1962), a Grammy (1972), a Tony (1975), and an Emmy (1977), Rita Moreno. https://youtube/watch?v=FDjXeWksP4w
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:05:56 +0000
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