Dolores del Río facts for kids
Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 – April 11, 1983) was a Mexican movie actress. She was a Hollywood movie star in the 1920s and 1930s. She was important to the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema during the 1940s and 1950s.
In the 1928 movie Ramona, Del Río played the title character. She also played the title character in Evangeline (1929). She played Madame du Barry in the motion picture of that name.
Del Río was born in Durango, Mexico. She died in Newport Beach, California at 77 of liver disease.
Images for kids
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Commemorative plaque at the house where Dolores del Río was born, located in Durango City, Mexico. It reads: Dolores del Rio. In the history of photography there are two perfect faces: hers and Greta Garbo's
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Del Río with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe in What Price Glory? (1926)
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Del Río with Everett Marshall in I Live for Love (1935). She is wearing an Orry-Kelly gown
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Del Río with Joseph Cotten in Journey into Fear (1942)
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Del Río with Pedro Armendáriz in Flor silvestre (1943)
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Del Río with Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960)
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Del Río in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
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Del Río with Orson Welles in 1941
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Photograph taken in 2018 of the sculpture Hollywood and La Brea Gateway located at the Walk of Fame's west end Four Ladies of Hollywood, which includes an statue of Dolores
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Dolores del Río's star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame
See also
- In Spanish: Dolores del Río