*JOANNA (1925)
*HIGH STEPPERS (1926)
*THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING! (1926)
*PALS FIRST (1926)
*WHAT PRICE OF GLORY? (1926)
*RESURRECTION (1927)
*THE LOVES OF CARMEN (1927)
*THE GATEWAY OF THE MOON (1927)
*NO OTHER WOMAN (1927)
*THE TRAIL OF '98 (1928)
*RAMONA (1928)
*THE RED DANCE (1928)
*REVENGE (1928)
*EVANGELINE (1929)
*THE BAD ONE (1930)
*THE GIRL OF THE RIO (1931)
*BIRD OF PARADISE (1932)
*FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933)
*WONDER BAR(1934)
*MADAME DUBARRY (1934)
*IN CALIENTE (1935)
*I LIVE FOR LOVE (1935) *THE WIDOW FROM MONTECARLO (1936)
*ACUSSED (1936) *THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (1937) *THE LANCER SPY (1938) *INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMEN (1938) *THE MAN FROM DAKOTA (1940) *JOURNEY INTO FEAR ( 1941)
*FLOR SILVESTRE (,1942) *MARIA CANDELARIA (XOCHIMILCO) (1943) LAS ABANDONADAS (1944) *BUGAMBILIA (1945)*LA SELVA DE FUEGO (1946) *LA OTRA ( 1946)
*THE FUGITIVE ( 1947)
*LA MALQUERIDA (1949)
*LA CASA CHCA (1949) *DESEADA (1950)
*DOÑA PERFECTA (1951)
*REPORTAJE (1953) *EL NIÑO Y LA NIEBLA ( 1953 *SEÑORA AMA (1954) *¿ADONDE VAN NUESTROS HIJOS? (1957)*LA CUCARACHA (1959) *FLAMING STAR (1960) *EL PECADO DE UNA MADRE (1961) *CHEYENNE AUTUMN (1964) LA DAMA DEL ALBA (1966) *CASA DE MUJERES (1967) *C'ERA UNA VOLTA (1967) *THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ (1978)
Television
"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1 episode, 1957)
"The United States Steel Hour" (1 episode, 1958)
''The Man Who Bought Paradise''(1965)
"Branded" (1 episode, 1966)
"Marcus Welby, M.D." (1 episode, 1970)
--THEATRE--:
''Anastacia'' (1956)
''El Abanico de Lady Windermere'' (1958)
''Camino a Roma'' (1960)
''Espectros'' (1961)
''Mi querido embustero'' (1961)
''La Vidente de Roussin'' (1965)
''La Reina y los Rebeldes'' (1966)
''La Dama de las Camelias (1968)
Books
Heroes
Dolores del Río was considered in the thirties like one of the most perfect representations of the female beauty.
In 1936, she was called "the second most beautiful woman of Hollywood" (only after Greta Garbo) in the movie magazine Photoplay.
Dolores del Río's appearance at the beginning of the 30's influenced Joan Crawford. In 1930, when Crawford emerged as beauty personified in the entire world, but especially in Hollywood, the women imitated her style of dress and make-up. Gone was the style of heavy pancake and little heart shaped mouths. In it's place came into vogue the angular face, the sculptures look. They produced a new type of beauty, of which Dolores del Río was the precursor.-Larry Carr ("More fabulous faces", 1979)
She left her 1920's look, loosened her hairdo, enlarged the shape of her lips and altered her eyebrows to underline her exquisite bone structure. She converted hers into (together with Garbo, Dietrich and Lamarr) one of the truly Great Faces".-Rogelio Agrasanchez ("Beauties of the Mexican Cinema", 2001)
Marlene Dietrich considered Dolores "The most beautiful woman in Hollywood". "She has better legs than Dietrich and better cheekbones than Garbo".
When del Río returned to México in 1943 her face experimented a change to become a prototype of the Mexican female beauty foreign countries: "Art Deco beauty of Dolores sympathizes with the Mexican Bronze Race and embodies to a perfect ideal".
She was model and muse of notable painters like Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, John Carroll and others.
Despite the passage of years, Dolores del Río continued until the end to present an image of an educated lady, elegant and sophisticated, that despite her age still remained pleasant and desirable in the eyes of the public.
In 1978, Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times mentions her as "One of the reigning beauties of the century".
Dolores del Río's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Straight
Ethnicity:
Latino / Hispanic
Zodiac Sign:
Leo
Occupation:
Actress
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Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 – April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood, becoming an important actress in Mexican films later in her life. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her generation. Dolores del Río was the first Latin American movie star with international appeal, and she made an extraordinary career in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood.
She was considered the female version of Rudolph Valentino in her silent films ages. With the arrival of the talkies she was one of the principal Art-Decó symbols of beauty in the glamorous 1930's Hollywood.
Dolores was the principal star of Mexican films from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was one of the the greatest examples of Latin American cinema, with a huge industry comparable to the Hollywood of those years. She was frequently referred as the "Princess of México".
Born María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, del Río was the second cousin of actor Ramón Novarro and the actress Andrea Palma. She was born into a Mexican wealthy family of Spanish-Basque descent.
The family lost all its assets during the Mexican Revolution, and settled in Mexico City. A desire to restore her comfortable lifestyle inspired Dolores to follow a career as an actress. She would dance for gatherings of rich Mexicans, and at one of these dances she met Jaime Martinez del Rio, a representative of one of Mexico's most important families. Despite being 18 years older than her, Jaime and Dolores fell in love. In 1921, at the age of 16, she married him. The couple spent three years in Europe. The couple moved to Mexico City, where del Río was discovered by movie producer Edwin Carewe. Struck by the beauty of Dolores, Carewe gave the couple work in Hollywood, she as an actress and he as a screenwriter.
With the surname of her husband, del Río made her debut in the film "Joanna", directed by Carewe in 1925. Hollywood first noticed her appeal as a sex siren, but she struggled against the "Mexicali Rose" image initially pitched to her by Hollywood executives. Carewe performed an exhaustive publicity for the actress, and helped increase del Río's popularity, and she was transformed into a female version of Rudolph Valentino.
In late 1926, director Raoul Walsh called del Río to give her a role in the sucess film "What Price Glory?". Later, she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926 (along with fellow newcomers Joan Crawford, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor, and Mary Astor). After she gained fame, Carewe produced the big production "Resurrection", which was a box office hit.
Dolores del Río's career flourished until the end of the silent era, with successful films such as "Ramona" (1928), and "Evangeline" (1929).
But while del Río's career was flourishing, her marriage declined. Jealous of his wife, Jaime moved to Germany, where he committed suicide in 1929. With the arrival of the talkies, del Río left her working relationship with Carewe, and debuted in the talkies with "The Bad One" in 1930.
In the same year, Dolores married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers. Her presence in Hollywood of the 30's is not just limited to the world of cinema, also the "high society" circles. The Gibbons-Del Río house in Hollywood was a frequent meeting place from the greatests Hollywood personalities.
She scored successes with "Bird of Paradise" (1932), directed by King Vidor. The film was produced by David O'Selznick and scandalized audiences when she took a naked swim with Joel McCrea. Next, the Del Río's career moved to the musical films. She filmed "Flying Down to Rio" (the film that launched the careers of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) (1933), "Madame DuBarry" (1934) and "Wonder Bar" (1934). Later, Dolores starred the Busby Berkeley comedies "In Caliente" (1935) and "I Live for Love" (1935).
In 1934, Dolores del Río was one of the victims of the "open season" of the "reds" in Hollywood. With James Cagney, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, she was accused of promoting communism in California. This would have consequences later in the career of the actress.
In the late thirties, del Río's career declined. Unfortunately suffered from too many exotic, two-dimensional roles designed with Hollywood's cliched ideas of ethnic minorities in mind. She was marked as "box office poison", along with actresses such as Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn and others.
In 1940, Dolores met Orson Welles, who at that time was coming up in Hollywood. Feeling a mutual attraction, the pair began a romance. Welles fell madly in love with her, although he was 10 years younger. The affair was reported to have been the cause of her divorce from Gibbons in 1941. Dolores del Río was with Welles for two years, during which he left his career. She was at his side during the filming of Citizen Kane, and Welles initially directed del Río in the Mexican film "Santa", but the project was cancelled. She collaborated with Welles in the film "Journey into Fear" in 1942. After Welles broke from RKO, del Río sympathized with him, though her character (a sexy leopard-woman) in the film, was reduced.
After breaking off her relationship with Orson Welles, del Río decided to try her luck in Mexico, disappointed by the "American star system". Mexican director Emilio Fernández asked her to star in "Flor Silvestre" (1942) and the miracle happened: at 37, Dolores del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in the Spanish language for the first time. The production group del Río-Fernandez, together with the cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and the actor Pedro Armendariz had international fame. One of her most successful films was "Maria Candelaria" (1943). Other celebrated movies of the group were "Las Abandonadas" (1944), "Bugambilia" (1944), "The Fugitive" (1947, directed by John Ford), and "La Malquerida" (1949). The Cinema of México found in Del Rio a perfect representation of the Mexican female face. Dolores del Río became the prototype of Mexican beauty in foreign countries.
Over her colaborations with Fernández , del Río was given the opportunity to work with the best film directors in Mexico. Roberto Gavaldon was the one who inherited from Fernández the privilege of creating stories for the flaunting of Del Rio. Under the Gavaldón direction, Dolores filmed the movies "La Otra" (1946), "La Casa Chica" (1949), "Deseada" (1950) and "El Niño y la Niebla" (1953). Other important films are "Doña Perfecta" (1951) and "La Cucaracha" (1959).
In 1959, she married theatrical American businessman Lewis "Lou" Riley (a former member of the Hollywood Canteen), who she met in Acapulco ten years before. The house of Dolores in México called "La Escondida" in Coyoacan was very popular inside Mexican and foreign celebrities. She won the Silver Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) as best actress in four times.
In 1960 Dolores del Río returned to Hollywood. She starred with Elvis Presley in "Flaming Star" directed by Don Siegel. Del Rio alternated between films in Mexico and the USA, with both television and theater. In 1964, she appeared in "Cheyenne Autumn" directed by John Ford; In 1967, she performed for the first time in Italy, with Sophia Loren and Omar Shariff in the film "More than a Miracle", produced by Carlo Ponti.
From the 1950s until the 1960s, Dolores del Río starred in theater classics like "Anastasia" (1956), "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1958) and "The Lady of the Camellias" (1968)[18], with great success in Mexico, Latin America and Europe. She also participated in some American TV series. Dolores del Río's last movie was "The Children of Sanchez", alongside Anthony Quinn in 1978.
During the sixties and seventies, Dolores del Río became involved in actor union activities in her native country and was the founder of the group known as "Rosa Mexicano". In 1974, she was the founder of the Estancia Infantil of the Asociacion Nacional de Actores in Mexico. In 1966, she was founder of the "Sociedad Protectora del Tesoro Artistico de México" (Society for the Protection of the artistic treasures of Mexico). In 1972, she helped found the Festival Cervantino.
In 1981 Dolores del Río was an honoree in the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
On April 11, 1983, Dolores del Río died from liver disease at the age of 77, in Newport Beach, California.
She was cremated and since 2005, on the centenary of her birth, her remains were moved to the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres in Mexico City.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street, in recognition of her contributions to the motion picture industry.
ESPAÑOL: Dolores del Río fué una actriz cinematográfica mexicana. Estrella de Hollywood durante los años del Cine Mudo y en la época de Oro de los años 30's y la figura femenina principal de la Epoca de Oro del Cine Mexicano de los años 40's y 50's. Reconocida como una de las mujeres mas bellas de su época, Dolores fué ademas, la primera mujer mexicana, y Latina en conseguir éxito internacional en el cine.
María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y Lopez Negrete, nació en el seno de una familia aristocratica de Durango, Mexico. Era prima del galán de Hollywood Ramon Novarro, y de la diva mexicana Andrea Palma. El estallido de la Revolución Mexicana en 1910, obligo a Dolores y su familia a mudarse a la Ciudad de Mexico, donde Dolores cursó sus estudios en un colegio francés. Desde jóven, demostró una gran pasion por las artes escenicas, principalmente la danza. En 1919, conoce a Jaime Martínez Del Río, distinguido caballero de la sociedad mexicana. La pareja se enamora y contraen matrimonio en 1921, para eventualmente mudarse a Europa.
De regreso en México, la pareja conoce al director cinematográfico norteamericano Edwin Carewe. Fascinado con la belleza y elegancia de Dolores, Carewe le ofrece convertirla en actriz en Hollywood. Con la aprobación de su marido, y ya como "Dolores del Río", la actriz debutara en la cinta "Joanna" en 1925. La intención de Carewe, era transformar a Dolores en la versión femenina de Rudolph Valentino, el "Latin Lover" por excelencia del Cine Mudo.
Con su participación en la cinta "What price glory?" en 1926, Dolores conocera el estrellato, siendo declarada una de las Baby Stars de la WAMPA'S al lado de figuras como Joan Crawford y Janet Gaynor. En los últimos años del Cine Mudo americano, Dolores conseguira grandes exitos, trabajando para los grandes estudios y bajo la dirección de figuras como Raoul Walsh o Clarence Brown. Sus mayores éxitos son las cintas "Ramona" (1928) y "Evangeline" (1929). Su matrimonio con Del Río concluye en 1928, y el se suicida en 1929.
Libre del yugo del director Edwin Carewe, Dolores debuta en el Cine Sonoro en 1930. En ese mismo año, contrae segundas nupcias con Cedric Gibbons, poderoso magnate de la MGM. Su matrimonio con uno de los ejes sociales mas importantes del Hollywood de la época, hacen que ella de el paso de "Latin Starlet" a verdadera Princesa del glamoroso Hollywood de los años 30's. Dolores conseguira un enorme exito en la polemica cinta de King Vidor "Bird of Paradise", en 1932. Durante el transcurso de los tempranos años 30, Dolores trabajara principalmente con los estudios RKO y Warner, y realizara cintas como "Flying down to Rio" (1933), "Wonder Bar" y "Madame Dubarry" (1934) y los musicales "In Caliente" y "I live for love" (1935).
Pero la constante evolución del "American Star System" poco a poco fué perjudicando a Dolores. En los albores de la guerra, las "Diosas de la Belleza" del cine pierden popularidad, y 1938, Dolores fué declarada "veneno de taquilla", junto con algunas de sus contemporáneas como Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo o Joan Crawford. A la situación se suman las acusaciones falsas sobre las tendencias comunistas de la actriz (junto con otras estrellas tambien mexicanas como Ramón Novarro y Lupe Vélez).
Dolores conoce al "joven terrible" de Hollywood, Orson Welles en 1939. Welles se enamora de ella, y Dolores se divorcia de su marido para iniciar un polémico romance con el genio cinematográfico, bajo cuyas ordenes filma "Journey into Fear" en 1942.
Separada del inestable Welles, y decepcionada del Star System Americano, Dolores decide regresar a México en 1943, donde la industria cinematográfica alcanzaba su mejor momento. El director Emilio "el Indio" Fernández, encontró en Dolores una perfecta musa. Las cintas "Flor Silvestre", "María Candelaria" (1943), "Las Abandonadas", "Bugambilia" (1944) y "La Malquerida" (1949), impulsan al extranjero la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano. Dolores se convierte en el símbolo de la belleza clásica de la mujer mexicana alrededor del mundo.
Convertida ya en la figura principal del Cine Mexicano, Dolores participara en sucesos filmicos como "La Otra" (1946), "Doña Perfecta" (1951) y "La Cucaracha" (1959), trabajando tambien en España y Argentina, y bajo las ordenes de John Ford en "The Fugitive" (1947). En 1959, contrae matrimonio con el empresario estadounidense Lewis Riley. Para este momento de su carrera, Dolores era ya considerada una figura de culto en México, y a su alrededor giran figuras relevantes no solo del espectaculo, sino tambien de la cultura, sociedad y política de todo un país.
En 1960, Dolores del Río regresa a Hollywood. Estelariza "Flaming Star" al lado de Elvis Presley y participa en la obra cumbre de John Ford "Cheyenne Autumn" en 1964. La declive del Cine mexicano, obliga a la actriz a refugiarse en el teatro, llegando a ser llamada la "Primera Dama del Teatro de México". Su popularidad persistió no solo en México, sino tambien en Hollywood donde permaneció vigente a traves de innumerables programas de televisión. Es destacable su labor sindicalista al fundar el grupo Rosa Mexicano, encargado de fundar la Estancia Infantil de la ANDA en 1972. En 1978, Dolores realiza su última actuación el la cinta "The Children of Sánchez".
Retirada del mundo del espectaculo, Dolores falleció víctima de un mal hepático en Newport Beach, California en 1983, dando el paso para convertirse en leyenda.
Dolores fué incinerada y sus restos descansan desde el año 2005 (fecha de su centenario) en la Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres de la Ciudad de México.
Dolores del Río posee una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood (1620 Vine Street) por su contribución a la industria cinematográfica internacional.
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*REPORTAJE (1953) *EL NIÑO Y LA NIEBLA ( 1953 *SEÑORA AMA (1954) *¿ADONDE VAN NUESTROS HIJOS? (1957)*LA CUCARACHA (1959)
