HOLLYWOOD DOLORES DEL RIO ,MOST BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS
Biography
Date of Birth 3 August 1904, Durango, Mexico
Date of Death 11 April 1983, Newport Beach, California, USA (liver failure)
Birth Name Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete
Nickname Lolita
Height 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Dolores del Río (August 3, 1904[1] – April 11, 1983), was a Mexican-born United States-based film, television and stage actress. She was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.[2]
Del Río was the first major Latin cross-over star in Hollywood,[3][4][5][6] After being discovered in Mexico by the filmmaker Edwin Carewe, she began her film career in 1925. In the last years of the American silent cinema, Dolores came to be considered a sort of female version of Rudolph Valentino, a "female Latin Lover"[7]
She had roles in a series of successful silent films like
What Price Glory? (1926),
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Resurrection (1927) and
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Ramona (1928).
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With the advent of sound, she acted films like
Bird of Paradise (1932),
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Flying Down to Rio (1933),
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Madame Du Barry (1934) and
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Journey into Fear (1943).
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.
When del Río returned to her native country, she became one of the most important promoters and stars of the called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. A series of films including
Wild Flower (1943),
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María Candelaria (1943),
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Las Abandonadas (1944),
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Bugambilia (1944) and
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The Unloved Woman (1949),
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are considered classic masterpieces and they helped boost Mexican cinema worldwide. Del Río remained in force in the cinema of her native country for the next three decades and only returned to Hollywood sporadically. Her long career also spanned theater and television.
Dolores del Rio was the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and had a meteoric career in 1920s Hollywood (an extraordinary accomplishment for an Hispanic female on those years). She came from an aristocratic family in Durango. In the Mexican revolution of 1916, however, the family lost everything they had and emigrated to Mexico City, where Dolores became a socialite.
In 1921 she married Jaime Del Río (also known as Jaime Martínez Del Río), a wealthy Mexican, and the two became friends with Hollywood producer/director Edwin Carewe. In a somewhat unorthodox manner, for those years, the couple moved to Hollywood where they expected to launch careers in the movie business (she as an actress, he as a screenwriter).
Eventually they were divorced after Dolores made her first film, Joanna (1925). THe film was a success and Dolores was hailed as a female Rudolph Valentino. Her career rose until the arrival of sound in 1928.
Her Hollywood career was over, and a romance with Orson Welles--who later called her "the most exciting woman I've ever met"--caused her second divorce
Mexican director Emilio Fernández offered her the lead in his film Flor silvestre (1943), with a wholly unexpected result: at age 37, Dolores Del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in Spanish for the first time.
Mexican director Emilio Fernández offered her the lead in his film Flor silvestre (1943), with a wholly unexpected result: at age 37, Dolores Del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in Spanish for the first time.
Her association with Fernández' team (cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, writer Mauricio Magdaleno and actor Pedro Armendáriz) was mainly responsible for creating what has been called the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema. With such pictures as María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944),
The Abandoned (1945) and Bugambilia (1945), Del Río became the prototypical Mexican beauty in foreign countries. Her career included film, theater and television. In her last years she received accolades because of her work for orphaned children. Her last film was The Children of Sanchez (1978).
Lewis Riley (1959 - 11 April 1983) (her death)
Cedric Gibbons (6 August 1930 - 17 January 1941) (divorced)
Jaime Del Rio (April 1922 - 7 June 1928) (divorced)
Cousin of Ramon Novarro.
She won the Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) three times:
on 1946 for The Abandoned (1945);
in 1952 for Doña Perfecta (1951) and
in 1954 for El niño y la niebla (1953).
She contributed money to a statue likeness of her as the title character in Evangeline (1929). Upon completion in 1930, the statue was placed beside
St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville, Louisiana. The statue rests on a spot marking the alleged burial place of Emmeline Labiche,
who local lore claims was the inspiration behind Longfellow's tragic heroine. It has become a popular tourist attraction and is known as
"The Evangeline Statue
Personal Quotes (14)
[in the 1920s] Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else. And, I, too, am getting like the rest. I have not read anything for a year. I do not know what is happening in the world.
Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
When I returned to Mexico, I joined with people eager to create the Mexican cinema. We were full of dreams and had no money whatsoever, but we were able to achieve something and open markets for our films all over the world.
[on the transition from silent to sound films] Many big stars didn't survive. Their voices were too high, or they didn't speak English well enough. I survived, but it was difficult. I had to work very, very hard at my English.
My first beauty rule is to relax completely for 20 minutes each day without interruption-no matter what! I lie flat on the floor and "let go," relaxing completely from the toes up. Consequently, at 5 o clock, when everyone else is tired out I'm full of energy.
One of the legends you hear about me is that I sleep 16 hours a day. That is ridiculous. In the first place, it's physically impossible. Secondly, someone else would have to do my work . . . on the stage, in motion pictures . . . managing my home. I sleep nine hours.
[in 1960] The secret of youth is work, keep busy, and never be bored. Boredom is the only thing that ages you. You don't have to be young to be a star; today there's acting for all ages. Last year I tried the legitimate stage, have now done three plays. When I was a star in Hollywood, I had hundreds of offers from Broadway, but never took them seriously. Thoughts of facing an audience appalled me. Now I feel it's the ideal medium for an actress. I work in TV also but don't love It; I do it as a sort of discipline.
That story about 14 hours' sleep is an exaggeration. I do have eight hours of sleep a night, however, and short naps whenever I can manage them in the day time.
I've never dieted in my life. Don't believe in it. Diets ruin a woman's health and appearance. Her face suffers. She looks drawn and haggard. I eat regular meals and eat anything and everything. Moderation is the key. I may eat cake; but I eat only a small slice.
Personally, I buy only what suits me. In the day time I dress very simply, but after 7 p. m. I dress dramatically. I usually wear a tiny nose veil on a cocktail hat. Men love it, and it seems to suit my face and personality.
Beauty does not come with creams and lotions and all those silly things. It comes with good digestion, moderation in eating, a discipline in life.
A woman must be soignee. To be neat in every aspect requires considerable organization. But to me that is more important than being fashionable!
We have a public, the power to influence, and we have an enormous responsibility to use this influence. We have awakened to this responsibility in Mexico. We even have an actress, María Elena Marqués, who is a congresswoman. She works terribly hard and is up at 6, not to go to a studio, but to work for the people of her district.
Beauty comes from the inside out. Creams are a waste of money if you don't take care of your health.
Joan Crawford said on a visit to Mexico in 1963:
Dolores became, and remains, as one of the most beautiful stars in the world.[78]
Marlene Dietrich said of her:
Dolores del Río was the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in Hollywood.[79][80][81]
George Bernard Shaw once said:
The two most beautiful things in the world are the Taj Mahal and Dolores del Rio.[82]
Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli once said:
I have seen many beautiful women in here, but none as complete as Dolores del Rio!.[83]
Diego Rivera said of her:
The most beautiful, the most gorgeous of the west, east, north and south. I'm in love with her as forty million Mexicans and one hundred twenty million Americans that can't be wrong.[84]
Photographer Jerome Zerbe said:
Dolores del Rio and Marlene Dietrich are the most beautiful women i've ever photographed.[85
டோலோரெஸ் உலகின் மிக அழகான பெண்மணி 1963
ஜோன் கிராவ் போர்ட்
டோலோரெஸ் ஹாலிவுட்டின் மிக அழகான பெண்மணி
Marlene Dietrich
உலகின் அழகானவை இரண்டு தான் ஒன்று தாஜ் மஹால் இன்னொன்று
டோலோரஸ் டெல் ரியோ -பெர்னாட் ஷா
Biography
Date of Birth 3 August 1904, Durango, Mexico
Date of Death 11 April 1983, Newport Beach, California, USA (liver failure)
Birth Name Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete
Nickname Lolita
Height 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Dolores del Río (August 3, 1904[1] – April 11, 1983), was a Mexican-born United States-based film, television and stage actress. She was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.[2]
Del Río was the first major Latin cross-over star in Hollywood,[3][4][5][6] After being discovered in Mexico by the filmmaker Edwin Carewe, she began her film career in 1925. In the last years of the American silent cinema, Dolores came to be considered a sort of female version of Rudolph Valentino, a "female Latin Lover"[7]
She had roles in a series of successful silent films like
What Price Glory? (1926),
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Resurrection (1927) and
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Ramona (1928).
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With the advent of sound, she acted films like
Bird of Paradise (1932),
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Flying Down to Rio (1933),
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Madame Du Barry (1934) and
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Journey into Fear (1943).
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.
When del Río returned to her native country, she became one of the most important promoters and stars of the called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. A series of films including
Wild Flower (1943),
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María Candelaria (1943),
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Las Abandonadas (1944),
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Bugambilia (1944) and
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are considered classic masterpieces and they helped boost Mexican cinema worldwide. Del Río remained in force in the cinema of her native country for the next three decades and only returned to Hollywood sporadically. Her long career also spanned theater and television.
Dolores del Rio was the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and had a meteoric career in 1920s Hollywood (an extraordinary accomplishment for an Hispanic female on those years). She came from an aristocratic family in Durango. In the Mexican revolution of 1916, however, the family lost everything they had and emigrated to Mexico City, where Dolores became a socialite.
Mexican director Emilio Fernández offered her the lead in his film Flor silvestre (1943), with a wholly unexpected result: at age 37, Dolores Del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in Spanish for the first time.
Mexican director Emilio Fernández offered her the lead in his film Flor silvestre (1943), with a wholly unexpected result: at age 37, Dolores Del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in Spanish for the first time.
Her association with Fernández' team (cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, writer Mauricio Magdaleno and actor Pedro Armendáriz) was mainly responsible for creating what has been called the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema. With such pictures as María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944),
The Abandoned (1945) and Bugambilia (1945), Del Río became the prototypical Mexican beauty in foreign countries. Her career included film, theater and television. In her last years she received accolades because of her work for orphaned children. Her last film was The Children of Sanchez (1978).
Lewis Riley (1959 - 11 April 1983) (her death)
Cedric Gibbons (6 August 1930 - 17 January 1941) (divorced)
Jaime Del Rio (April 1922 - 7 June 1928) (divorced)
Cousin of Ramon Novarro.
She won the Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) three times:
on 1946 for The Abandoned (1945);
in 1952 for Doña Perfecta (1951) and
in 1954 for El niño y la niebla (1953).
She contributed money to a statue likeness of her as the title character in Evangeline (1929). Upon completion in 1930, the statue was placed beside
St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville, Louisiana. The statue rests on a spot marking the alleged burial place of Emmeline Labiche,
who local lore claims was the inspiration behind Longfellow's tragic heroine. It has become a popular tourist attraction and is known as
"The Evangeline Statue
Personal Quotes (14)
[in the 1920s] Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else. And, I, too, am getting like the rest. I have not read anything for a year. I do not know what is happening in the world.
Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
When I returned to Mexico, I joined with people eager to create the Mexican cinema. We were full of dreams and had no money whatsoever, but we were able to achieve something and open markets for our films all over the world.
[on the transition from silent to sound films] Many big stars didn't survive. Their voices were too high, or they didn't speak English well enough. I survived, but it was difficult. I had to work very, very hard at my English.
My first beauty rule is to relax completely for 20 minutes each day without interruption-no matter what! I lie flat on the floor and "let go," relaxing completely from the toes up. Consequently, at 5 o clock, when everyone else is tired out I'm full of energy.
One of the legends you hear about me is that I sleep 16 hours a day. That is ridiculous. In the first place, it's physically impossible. Secondly, someone else would have to do my work . . . on the stage, in motion pictures . . . managing my home. I sleep nine hours.
[in 1960] The secret of youth is work, keep busy, and never be bored. Boredom is the only thing that ages you. You don't have to be young to be a star; today there's acting for all ages. Last year I tried the legitimate stage, have now done three plays. When I was a star in Hollywood, I had hundreds of offers from Broadway, but never took them seriously. Thoughts of facing an audience appalled me. Now I feel it's the ideal medium for an actress. I work in TV also but don't love It; I do it as a sort of discipline.
That story about 14 hours' sleep is an exaggeration. I do have eight hours of sleep a night, however, and short naps whenever I can manage them in the day time.
I've never dieted in my life. Don't believe in it. Diets ruin a woman's health and appearance. Her face suffers. She looks drawn and haggard. I eat regular meals and eat anything and everything. Moderation is the key. I may eat cake; but I eat only a small slice.
Personally, I buy only what suits me. In the day time I dress very simply, but after 7 p. m. I dress dramatically. I usually wear a tiny nose veil on a cocktail hat. Men love it, and it seems to suit my face and personality.
Beauty does not come with creams and lotions and all those silly things. It comes with good digestion, moderation in eating, a discipline in life.
A woman must be soignee. To be neat in every aspect requires considerable organization. But to me that is more important than being fashionable!
We have a public, the power to influence, and we have an enormous responsibility to use this influence. We have awakened to this responsibility in Mexico. We even have an actress, María Elena Marqués, who is a congresswoman. She works terribly hard and is up at 6, not to go to a studio, but to work for the people of her district.
Beauty comes from the inside out. Creams are a waste of money if you don't take care of your health.
Joan Crawford said on a visit to Mexico in 1963:
Dolores became, and remains, as one of the most beautiful stars in the world.[78]
Marlene Dietrich said of her:
Dolores del Río was the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in Hollywood.[79][80][81]
George Bernard Shaw once said:
The two most beautiful things in the world are the Taj Mahal and Dolores del Rio.[82]
Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli once said:
I have seen many beautiful women in here, but none as complete as Dolores del Rio!.[83]
Diego Rivera said of her:
The most beautiful, the most gorgeous of the west, east, north and south. I'm in love with her as forty million Mexicans and one hundred twenty million Americans that can't be wrong.[84]
Photographer Jerome Zerbe said:
Dolores del Rio and Marlene Dietrich are the most beautiful women i've ever photographed.[85
டோலோரெஸ் உலகின் மிக அழகான பெண்மணி 1963
ஜோன் கிராவ் போர்ட்
டோலோரெஸ் ஹாலிவுட்டின் மிக அழகான பெண்மணி
Marlene Dietrich
உலகின் அழகானவை இரண்டு தான் ஒன்று தாஜ் மஹால் இன்னொன்று
டோலோரஸ் டெல் ரியோ -பெர்னாட் ஷா
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