Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río | |
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Dolores del Río in The Fugitive (1947) | |
| Born | María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete[1] 3 August 1904 Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexico |
| Died | 11 April 1983 (aged 78) Newport Beach, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1925–1978 |
| Spouses | Jaime Martínez del Río
(m. 1921; div. 1928)Cedric Gibbons
(m. 1930; div. 1941)Lewis A. Riley (m. 1959) |
| Partner | Orson Welles (1940–1943) |
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María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904[2] – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del Río (Spanish pronunciation: [doˈloɾes del ˈri.o]), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood.[3][4][5][6] Along with a notable career in American cinema during the 1920s and 1930s, she was also considered one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema,[7] and one of the most beautiful actresses of her era.[6]
After being discovered in Mexico, she began her film career in Hollywood in 1925. She had roles in a string of successful films, including Resurrection (1927), Ramona (1928) and Evangeline (1929). Del Río came to be considered a sort of feminine version of Rudolph Valentino, a ‘female Latin Lover’,[8][9] in her years during the American silent era.
With the advent of sound, she acted in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to musical comedies and romantic dramas. Her most successful films of that decade include Bird of Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). In the early 1940s, when her Hollywood career began to decline, Del Río returned to Mexico and joined the Mexican film industry, which at that time was at its peak, during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema.
When Del Río returned to her native country, she became one of the more important stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.[10] A series of Mexican films starring Del Rio are considered classic masterpieces and helped boost Mexican cinema worldwide. Of them stands out the critically acclaimed María Candelaria (1943).[11] Del Río remained active mainly in Mexican films throughout the 1950s. In 1960 she returned to Hollywood. During the next years she appeared in Mexican and American films. From the late 1950s until the early 1970s she also successfully ventured into theater in Mexico and appeared in some American TV series.
Del Río is considered a quintessential representation of the female face of Mexico in the world.[12]
- ^ "¿Sabes quién es María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete?". ElEdoméxInforma (in Spanish). 11 April 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ Jarlson, Gary; Thackery Jr, Ted (13 April 1983). "Dolores Del Rio, Exotic Queen of Films, Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Hall (2013), p. 3.
- ^ Mulcahey, Martin (29 December 2011). "The First Latina to Conquer Hollywood". Film International. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ The Face of Deco: Dolores Del Rio Archived 2016-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, Screendeco.wordpress.com, May 18, 2012.
- ^ a b "Dolores Del Rio". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 26 July 2015.
- ^ Zolov (2015), p. 260.
- ^ Hall (2013), p. 2.
- ^ Hall (2013), p. 15.
- ^ Cocking, Lauren (17 November 2016). "The Golden Age Of Mexican Cinema: A Short History, in Culture Trip". Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Mastrangelo, Bob. "Maria Candelaria Reviews, on TV Guide". Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ "DurangoMas: Dolores del Río biography". Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2019.