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Dolores del Río
María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, 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. 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…
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entertainment · Mexican actress (1904–1983) · actor · film actor · stage actor · television actor · singer · also Dolores del Río, María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, Río
Born 3 August 1904 · Died 11 April 1983 · Q124057
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2026· 4 entries
POSTA México: Festival de Cine Mexicano Dolores del Río en Durango: fechas, películas e invitados
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El Siglo de Durango: En conversatorio, rinden homenaje al legado de Dolores del Río
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Moviefone: Dolores del Río
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: The invention of Dolores del Rio / Joanne Hershfield
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2022· 1 entry
ABC7: Former Hollywood home of Mexican actress Dolores del Río designated historical-cultural monument
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2004· 1 entry
To commemorate the centenary of her birth, and as part of a series of posthumous tributes, the Mexican government interred her remains at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons, located in the same cemetery and where the rem
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2002· 1 entry
By the artist Eloy Torrez in the Hollywood High School
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1991· 1 entry
And questioned whether young audiences were familiar with either
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1983· 2 entries
Died 1983-04-11.
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Dolores del Río died from liver failure at the age of 78 in Newport Beach, California
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1982· 2 entries
Was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film
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Del Río was admitted to Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, California, where hepatitis led to cirrhosis
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1978· 1 entry
Dolores made her last film appearance in The Children of Sanchez, directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Anthony Quinn
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1976· 1 entry
Del Río was invited to serve as president of the jury of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, in Spain
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1975· 1 entry
Won Golden Ariel (1975).
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1972· 1 entry
Helped found the Cultural Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato
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1970· 3 entries
She, in collaboration with other renowned Mexican actresses and performers, such as Adela Peralta Leppe, founded the union group "Rosa Mexicano", which provided a day nursery for the children of the members of the Mexica
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The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the Asociación Nacional de Actores, the Humane Society of the Artistic Treasures of Mexico and the Motion Picture Export Association of America paid her a tribute titl
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Produced and starred in theater The Lady of the Camellias
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1968· 1 entry
Del Río first performed on Mexican television in an autobiographical documentary narrated by her
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1967· 1 entry
The Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi invited her to be part of the movie More Than a Miracle (also 1967) with Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif
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1966· 1 entry
Del Río was co-founder of the Society for the Protection of the Artistic Treasures of Mexico with the philanthropist Felipe García Beraza
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1964· 1 entry
Appeared in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn, playing the role of the Cheyenne mother of Sal Mineo
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1962· 1 entry
Dolores received her at her home in Acapulco
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1959· 2 entries
The couple married in New York after ten years of relationship
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Mexican filmmaker Ismael Rodríguez brought del Río and her alleged rival María Félix together in the film La Cucaracha
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1958· 1 entry
The play The Road to Rome, would mark the reunion in the theater of the film couple del Río-Pedro Armendáriz
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1957· 2 entries
Was selected as vice president of the jury of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival
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Debuted in television in the role of a Spanish lady in the American television series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, opposite Cesar Romero
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1956· 2 entries
And to continue with a tour of seven other theaters throughout New England
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Her political situation in the United States was resolved
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Ariel Award for Best Actress for The Boy and the Fog (1954).
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Del Río was slated to appear as the wife of Spencer Tracy's character in the 20th Century Fox film Broken Lance
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Ariel Award for Best Actress for Doña Perfecta (1952).
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Was awarded the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award and was called the "best-dressed woman in America"
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1949· 2 entries
Del Río met the American millionaire Lewis A
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Met the American millionaire Lewis A
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1947· 1 entry
Del Río was invited by the film director John Ford to play the role of an indigenous woman who falls in love with a fugitive priest (Henry Fonda) in the film The Fugitive, an adaptation of the novel The Power and the Glo
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Ariel Award for Best Actress for Las Abandonadas (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Del Río filmed La selva de fuego (1945) directed by Fernando de Fuentes
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1941· 1 entry
Del Río was also portrayed by the famous Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco
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1940· 1 entry
Del Río met actor and filmmaker Orson Welles at a party organized by Darryl Zanuck
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1938· 1 entry
The actress was portrayed by her close friend, the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera
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1937· 1 entry
Del Río filmed The Devil's Playground opposite Chester Morris and Richard Dix
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1935· 1 entry
To star in another musical comedy called In Caliente (1935), where she portrayed a sultry Mexican dancer who has an affair with the character of actor Pat O'Brien
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1933· 3 entries
The American film magazine Photoplay conducted a search for "the most perfect female figure in Hollywood", using the criteria of doctors, artists and designers as judges
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Which chronicles the life of an actress named "Piedad"
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Quickly decided to have del Rio do another film, a musical comedy directed by Thornton Freeland: Flying Down to Rio
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1932· 1 entry
Selznick entrusted filmmaker King Vidor with a new and ambitious project
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1930· 2 entries
Del Río met Cedric Gibbons, an art director at MGM and one of the most influential men in Hollywood, at a party at Hearst Castle
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Del Río met Cedric Gibbons, an art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of the most influential men in Hollywood, at a party at Hearst Castle
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1929· 1 entry
(at the height of her popularity) that she wanted "to play a Mexican woman and show what life in Mexico really is
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1928· 2 entries
Del Río filmed No Other Woman (1928), directed by Lou Tellegen
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Was hired again by United Artists for the third film version of the successful novel Ramona, directed again by Carewe
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1927· 1 entry
United Artists became interested in del Río's career and signed a contract with her and Carewe
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1926· 1 entry
The filmmaker Raoul Walsh called del Río to cast her in the war film What Price Glory
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1924· 1 entry
Caused an economic crisis for both and had to settle in Mexico City under the economic protection of their respective families
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1921· 1 entry
Aged 17, del Río was invited by a group of Mexican women to dance in a party to benefit a local hospital
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1916· 1 entry
When del Río was 11 years old, she was first portrayed by Alfredo Ramos Martínez, a very popular artist among Mexican high society
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1912· 1 entry
The Asúnsolo family reunited in Mexico City and lived under the protection of then-president Francisco I
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-08-03.
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