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Rita Moreno Says She Dated Elvis Presley as Revenge on Marlon Brando for Cheating
Rita Moreno has claimed that she used Elvis Presley to payback Marlon Brando for cheating on her.
The iconic actors dated for eight years, although Brando was unfaithful several times during that period. Moreno once found another woman’s underwear in his home.
The Oscar winner, 89, appeared on The View on Wednesday, where co-host Joy Behar confronted her about Brando “constantly” cheating on her throughout their on-again, off-again romance.
The Oscar winner, 89, appeared on The View on Wednesday, where co-host Joy Behar confronted her about Brando “constantly” cheating on her throughout their on-again, off-again romance.
Moreno, who met Brando on the set of “Désirée” when she was 22, said, “I found lingerie in his house and, of course, I was heartbroken, and I went home in tears — really, I was naïve — and I was angry too, just furious. The next day, the phone rings, and I hear ‘Miss Marina?’ I said, ‘Uh, yeah?’
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“‘This is Colonel Parker, my client is Elvis Presley, and Elvis spotted you at the 20th Century Fox commissary, and he liked what he saw.’
“I said ‘Oh?’ and he said, ‘And he would like very much to meet you. Would you like to meet him?’” the actress continued. “And I thought of those panties, and I said, ‘Yes, I would!’”
Moreno claimed to have “dated [Elvis] several times” and described him as “sweet but boring.”
“He was sweet,” Moreno recalled, “but he was a country boy. So anyway, when [Brando] found out, it didn’t take long. He started to throw chairs. He was so angry. It was wonderful. And I just sat there as he threw chairs and carried on.”
The documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, chronicled the actress’s life, career, and troubled relationship with Brando. The documentary is now available to watch on Netflix.
“He was the daddy that I couldn’t please,” she said in the Brando documentary, according to People. “I didn’t know that, I wasn’t aware of that at all. But he was the one I wanted to please, he was the one I wanted to be married to.”
As part of a media tour to promote West Side Story, Rita Moreno talks about her glamorous life. She is one of the few EGOT winners in history. That’s an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.
West Side Story hits theaters Dec. 10.
