It looks pretty amazing. I mean, you can really see Rita Moreno's brownface.
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I think that they applied make-up to make her skin darker so that she would look more "ethnic" in this film.
It looks pretty amazing. I mean, you can really see Rita Moreno's brownface.
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I think that they applied make-up to make her skin darker so that she would look more "ethnic" in this film.
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Far left foreground in Wooley's last post. Yes, they darkened everybody's skin if they were cast as a Puerto Rican, including Rita Moreno. She says so herself.
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I don't know of course if they did or didn't. I know she's a Puerto Rican born actress, dancer, singer. Here's another pic of her from the movie
Don't get me wrong, it's a ****ing amazing movie. But history is what it is.