Broadway's Rita Moreno Talks Career, Love Life and More on CBS SUNDAY MORNING

Rita Moreno stopped by CBS SUNDAY MORNING today to talk with Mo Rocca about coming to the U.S., her life on the big screen and more. Moreno, who starred as 'Anita' in 1961's West Side Story, said she got her break by modeling herself after Elizabeth Taylor.

"I did my eyebrows like her, I did my hair like her," she told Mo Rocca. "I wore a waist cincher because she has this wasp waist. I did everything I could. And when I did meet Mr. Louis B. Mayer the first thing he said was, 'Look at that: She looks like a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor.' Signed me on the spot."

Read the full interview here, and watch a clip of Moreno dancing on the show below!

Moreno, now 81, moved to the United States from Puerto Rico when she was five to join relatives in the Bronx, where she - then Rosita Dolores Alverio - took dance lessons, performed in clubs, and eventually found an agent who convinced her to change her name to Rita Moreno.

She is known for her passionate, 8-year affair with actor Marlon Brando, which ended in her attempted suicide. Four months later, Moreno won an Oscar for West Side Story. Moreno is one of the rare performers to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

Moreno has appeared on PBS' children's show "The Electric Company" and currently stars alongside Fran Drescher in "Happily Divorced". On the big screen, Moreno has appeared in Singin' in the Rain, The King and I, Summer and Smoke, The Night of the Following Day and Carnal Knowledge.

In 2011, she starred in Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep. Moreno has appeared on Broadway in The Odd Couple, Wally's Cafe, The Ritz, The National Health, Gantry, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and Skydrift, as well as She Loves Me in the West End, and The Vagina Monologues off-Broadway.