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The theme continued when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic member of the nation's highest court, introduced opera diva Arroyo. The daughter of a Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother, Arroyo grew up in an unlikely place for a future opera star: New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Eleanor Parker, Marjorie Lawrence in 'Interrupted Melody' and Original 'Sound of Music' Baroness, Dead at 91
"She so thoroughly prepared a role that she made her work look easy, the way Fred Astaire made his dance routines look easy. The sweat is never visible on the screen. It comes in preparation, not in performance," said William Ludwig, who won an Academy Award for his script for Parker's 'Interrupted Melody.'
