Rita Moreno says she dated Elvis Presley to make cheater Marlon Brando jealous: He ‘was sweet but boring’

Rita Moreno and Marlon Brando first met when she was 22 on the set of the 1954 biopic “Désirée.”

Moreno and Brando first met when she was 22 on the set of the 1954 biopic "Désirée."

"I found lingerie in his house and, of course, I was heartbroken, and I went home in tears – really, I was naïve – and I was angry too, just furious," the 89-year-old recalled. "The next day, the phone rings, and I hear ‘Miss Marina?’ I said, ‘Uh, yeah?’ ‘This is Colonel Parker, my client is Elvis Presley, and Elvis spotted you at the 20th Century Fox commissary, and he liked what he saw."