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Chita Rivera, who has died aged 91, was the raven-haired American actress, singer and dancer who created Anita in the 1957 Broadway premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story; she did the same the following year for the British premiere, where she was considered so central to the show’s success that the London opening was postponed until she had given birth to her daughter.

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