Movita told writer Michael Taub that MGM inflated her age. At the time, she said, she was 14 - not 19, as the studio claimed on government documents.
Her stage name 'Movita' was coined for her by MGM executives who thought it sounded Polynesian.
She lives in Mexico. (2006)
Married Irish prizefighter Jack Doyle in 1939. Doyle was also a tenor, known as "the Irish thrush". He performed with Movita at European cabarets and for some time they owned a London nightclub called the 'Swizzle Stick'.
Was discovered for the screen by RKO producer Pandro S. Berman.