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Rita Moreno's Life and Career Detailed in New Doc: "She Was the One Who Gave Us Representation"

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"An EGOT? What good's an EGOT? An EGOT doesn't fill a deeper need to be loved and taken care of," says Rita Moreno. The 89-year-old screen icon — one of only 16 people to win a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, aka an "EGOT" — is reflecting on her doomed affair with Marlon Brando, whom she met in 1954 on the set of the historical romance Désirée.

After years of infidelity and heartache, the couple self-destructed when Moreno got pregnant and Brando insisted she get an abortion.

That led to Moreno swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills she'd found in Brando's medicine cabinet. Had Brando's assistant not discovered her and rushed her to the hospital, she surely would have died.

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