Dolores del Río

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Dolores del Río with Herbert Rawlinson (1929)

Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete de Martínez del Río , called Dolores del Río (born August 3, 1905 in Durango , † April 11, 1983 in Newport Beach , California ), was a Mexican film actress .

life and work

Dolores del Río was born into a very elegant and long-established family. One of her cousins ​​was the actor Ramón Novarro . After ballet lessons at the conservatory in Mexico City, and later in Europe del Rio was in 1925 for the film to Hollywood and made his debut in Joanna of Edwin Carewe . The following year she received international feedback for her portrayal of a young French woman in Raoul Walsh's successful anti-war film Rivals and was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of the Year. She was considered an exotic beauty and was cast according to this image. The actress and Carewe made several successful films that were distributed by United Artists . After initially refusing to appear in sound films, the actress finally made her sound film debut in The Bad One in 1930 . The film was not very successful and she didn't shoot at all for a few years. Only when she switched to RKO in 1932 revitalized her career. In the same year she appeared in the South Seas adventure Bird of Paradise , directed by King Vidor . In 1933 she played a Brazilian in the musical Flying Down to Rio and was announced in the opening credits before Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , who made their debut here as a screen couple.

Despite her strong accent, the actress continued to shoot in the USA until 1942, most recently starring alongside Joseph Cotten in the female lead in Hunted by Agents, directed by Orson Welles . Unsatisfied with the roles she was offered, she then returned to Mexico, where she helped to activate the national film industry and was one of the top stars of national cinema for another 25 years. She worked with the director Emilio Fernández on her first Mexican film Flor Silvestre in 1943 , and further work with him followed. For her leading role in his film Las Abandonadas , she received an Ariel at the first award of this Mexican film award in 1946 . In 1975, in recognition of her 50-year film career, she received the “Premio Especial”, an honorary award from the Mexican film prize Premio Ariel . Her few appearances in US productions include Don Siegel's Flaming Star from 1960, in which she played the mother of Elvis Presley , and John Ford's Cheyenne . She has also worked in Mexican and American theaters, as well as on television.

The actress was married to Cedric Gibbons , MGM's chief designer , from 1929 to 1941 . Marlene Dietrich described Dolores del Río as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.

A star on the Walk of Fame commemorates them.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Dolores del Río  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ rororo film dictionary. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, Volume 4, Personen AG, p. 915, ISBN 3-499-16231-8
personal data
SURNAME Río, Dolores del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asúnsolo y López Negrete de Martínez del Río, Dolores; Martínez Asúnsolo López Negrette, Lolita Dolores
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican film actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria de Durango , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1983
Place of death Newport Beach , California