Number 09: Rita Moreno as Anita in 'West Side Story' (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

The part of Anita was the reason that the Oscar was invented. Fundamentally, all that Anita has to do is this: come, steal the film and go away. And Rita Moreno does this with entire power!

I have seen West Facet Tale on the stage already a number of instances and of course, there had been Anitas who sang greater (even although Rita Moreno did not sing ‘A Boy like that’ anyway) and there ended up Anitas who could dance far better but there was by no means an Anita who experienced the identical acting talent and vitality that Rita Moreno introduced to the portion. The display is on hearth when Rita Moreno is on the display screen and this may possibly effortlessly be the ultimate film musical efficiency. Apart from dancing up a storm, she operates the complete gamut of emotions, going from joy to sorrow to anger to loathe – and she does all this with impressive realism while also trying to keep Anita ‘larger-than-life’ in the universe that West Side Tale generates.

Rita Moreno is a supporting actress who the two supports and carries the film. Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood may offer the message and the topic of West Side Tale and both actors do gratifying work thanks to the simplicity of their figures and the story but West Side Tale comes alive thanks to the supporting players. And among them, nobody is this sort of a power as Rita Moreno and she is the explanation why West Facet Tale is the traditional that it is these days.

‘America’ on your own is adequate to award Rita Moreno. She has the wonderful expertise of not only dancing and singing but really performing during this variety, emphasizing the playfulness and the sexual stress of the scene.

In the bridal store she demonstrates all the worries Anita has about Tony and Maria with one particular search and turns her character from a happy get together-woman in a excellent friend and worried female. Once again, she does all this so simply but it is still obvious at each second that she is the dominating power in West Aspect Story.

And afterwards, she exhibits some of the strongest extraordinary performing this group has ever witnessed when she initial has to endure the reduction of her really like, then is persuaded to assist the male who is dependable for it and then is practically raped in Doc’s store. As described just before, Anita is a correct showcase and it would be quite challenging for an actress to wreck this element – but to take it as high as Rita Moreno did it is not truly easier.