Chita Rivera – a life in pictures
The Broadway star has died aged 91. Revisit her glittering career, including West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Chita Rivera in 1955.
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Rivera, pictured in 1957, was an original cast member in the Broadway production of West Side Story – she played the role of Anita
Photograph: AP
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In The Revlon Revue: Tiptoe Through TV in 1960.
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Rivera playing with her daughter, Lisa Mordente, in London in 1962
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On the television show The Hollywood Palace in 1966
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Paula Kelly, Shirley MacLaine and Chita Rivera in the 1969 film Sweet Charity
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Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera in Chicago in 1975
Photograph: Martha Swope/Martha Swope ©The New York Public Library
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Liza Minnelli, left, with Chita Rivera in a PBS special in 1984
Photograph: AP
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In Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Shaftesbury theatre, London, in 1992
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Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rivera
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In the Broadway musical The Visit in 2015.
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In 2018 at the Concert for America: Stand Up, Sing Out! at the Great Hall at Cooper Union, New York.
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With her daughter Lisa Mordente at Rivera’s 90th birthday celebration in New York in January 2023.
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