. >> she's a spitfire. she will take no prisoners.be held back. >> reporter: moreno began dancing as a child. >> i would perform at all kinds of bar mitzvahs and jewish weddings and catholic weddings. i was an equal opportunity little carmen miranda. >> reporter: she used her talent to help support her mother, who, she says, was not the ideal parent. >> she did the best she could. she was very self-involved and self-absorbed. she was a narcissistic young woman. >> reporter: she was married five times. >> well, married five times doesn't mean you're narcissistic; it simply means that you don't go to bed with somebody unless you marry them. she was a lady from the islands. >> reporter: moreno was "discovered," and landed at mgm, where she was assigned one ethnic role after another. she played tuptim, the unhappy wife of the king of siam in "the king and i". >> when i went into movies, i did nothing but speak with an accent. it used to just drive me crazy. they were, of course, all the same accent, because i don't know how an american in