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	Dolores del Rio.
		Educated in a convent, she married writer Jaime Martinez Del Rio at the age of 16, and the couple moved to Mexico City where they were very socially active, until the dissolution of their marriage.
		In American films, Del Rio's leading men ran the gamut from Henry Fonda, in 1947's "The Fugitive," to Elvis Presley, in 1960's "Flaming Star." Though she looked far too young to play Elvis' mother, he was so enchanted with her that he insisted she be cast.
		Del Rio was a brilliant businesswoman and in 1943, when she returned to Mexico to star in films (frequently with Pedro Armendariz), she negotiated a percentage-of-profits deal, increasing her already vast fortune.
	www.texasescapes.com /MaggieVanOstrand/Dolores-del-Rio.htm (598 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Dolores del Río
		Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Durango, Mexico, del Río was the cousin of actor Ramón Novarro.
		In 1921 she married Jaime del Río, and through a Hollywood friend the couple emigrated to the USA with the plan of establishing showbusiness careers for themselves: screenwriter and actress, respectively.
		Dolores del Río has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street, in recognition of her contributions to the motion picture industry.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Dolores_del_Rio (585 words)

	Dolores del Río - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1921 at the age of 16, she married Jaime Martinez del Rio, and through a Hollywood friend the couple emigrated to the USA with the plan of establishing show business careers for themselves: as screenwriter and actress, respectively.
		She died from liver disease at the age of 77 in Laguna Beach, California, and was buried in the Panteón de Dolores cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.
		Dolores del Río has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street, in recognition of her contributions to the motion picture industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolores_del_Rio (548 words)

	/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-MEXICO: Dolores del Río - Diva and Film Star
		MEXICO CITY, May 8 (IPS) - Mexico's Dolores del Río, who in the 1920s and 1930s achieved diva status in Hollywood and a place among the artistic saints of her own country, is being remembered in a series of conferences, film festivals and expositions 100 years after her birth.
		Del Río and María Félix (who died in 2002 at the age of 88) are considered the leading 20th century Mexican actresses of international scope.
		Del Río was active in the U.S. film industry for 17 years, beginning her career there.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=23586 (1023 words)

	Bio for Dolores Del Rio on MSN Movies
		Born into an aristocratic Mexican family, actress Dolores Del Rio was the daughter of a prominent banker.
		The second cousin of silent film star Ramon Novarro, Del Rio was a regular guest at Hollywood parties; at one of these, director Edwin Carewe, struck by her dazzling beauty, felt she'd be perfect for a role in his upcoming film Joanna (1925).
		Upon the breakup of her second marriage to art director Cedric Gibbons, the graceful, intelligent Del Rio became the most eligible "bachelor girl" in Hollywood; one of her most ardent suitors was Orson Welles, ten years her junior, who cast her in his 1942 RKO production Journey Into Fear.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=172909 (403 words)

	WAC \| Calendar \| January 2002 \| Illuminating The Silver Screen: Dolores Del Rio
		She was molded as a starlet of varied roles and optimum glamour; as with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood capitalized on del Rio's exotic origins to construct a mysterious aura around her beauty.
		Although fair-skinned and of European descent, del Rio never escaped her typecasting as a dark enchantress during the heyday of Westerns and foreign adventure/musicals set in generically south-of-the-border locales.
		Del Rio's persona and career provide a fascinating example of the ways in which Hollywood fetishized and stereotyped feminine and racially marked stars.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/B/B07371BD1B965EEF6172.htm (229 words)

	Dolores Del Rio \| Biography \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After a convent education, she was married at age 16 to writer Jaime Del Rio, whose name she retained long after the marriage had dissolved.
		In 1943, Del Rio returned to Mexico to star in films, negotiating a "percentage of profits" deal which increased her already vast fortune.
		Del Rio retired from filmmaking in 1978, choosing to devote her time to managing her financial and real estate holdings, and to her lifelong hobbies of writing and painting.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/16210/bio.jhtml (388 words)

	Dolores del Río, estrella que aún brilla :: Televisa Espectáculos :: esmas.com
		Dolores del Río, estrella que aún brilla :: Televisa Espectáculos :: esmas.com
		Dolores del Río es una de las figuras más importantes del cine mexicano y uno de los personajes que más ayuda brindó a sus semejantes, sobre todo a los niños.
		Hace unos cuántos días tuve la oportunidad de ir a la iglesia del Altillo, famosa en la capital mexicana, y me contaron una de las historias mas bellas de Dolores del Río, una anécdota que describe el ser humano que hay dentro de las mismas estrellas.
	www.esmas.com /espectaculos/televisaespectaculos/357222.html (375 words)

	Dolores Del Rio \| Entertainment Magazine \| EMOL.org
		In 1933, Photoplay Magazine voted Del Rio as having "the most perfect feminine figure in Hollywood." While standing only 5 foot 3, with jet-fl hair and eyes, and a flawless complexion, the films Dolores made during the 1930's were mainly conceived to showcase her beauty and fashion style, often in Warner Bros. musicals.
		Del Rio, though always visually fantastic, believed her acting talent was wasted in these pictures, and felt typecast.
		Dolores Del Rio must have led a very happy life, for she remained amazingly and breathtakingly beautiful until her death from liver failure April 11, 1983.
	emol.org /emclub/?q=doloresdelrio (1788 words)

	© Dolores del Rio - Silent and Sound Movie Star - goldensilents.com
		Exotically beautiful Dolores del Rio was born August 3rd, 1905 and christened Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico.
		Dolores' big break came when she was cast in the memorable role of the French girl Charmaine in "What Price Glory?" (1926), the World War One silent screen epic.
		Dolores married a third and final time in 1959 to businessman Lew Riley, a marriage that lasted until her death on April 11th, 1983 from liver failure.
	www.goldensilents.com /stars/doloresdelrio.html (391 words)

	Alfredo de Batuc: Dolores del Río -Artist´s Statement
		Her portrait and the oval scenes are in fl and white contrasting sharply with the sunset colors of the background that go from fiery oranges to a passionate red to a dusky burgundy.
		In painting this mural to honor Dolores Del Río and her accomplishments I was inspired by my neighbors, my neighborhood, and the original desert landscape where this city was planted.
		The Dolores Del Río mural was painted in the spring of 1990 and dedicated July 13 of the same year.
	www.debatuc.com /dolores/ddrstatement.html (1056 words)

	Dolores del Rio @ Filmbug
		Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 - April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress.
		Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, del Río was the cousin of actor Ramón Novarro.
		The marriage ended in divorce but del Río retained her married name, continued to pursue a career as an actress, and made her first film appearance in 1925.
	www.filmbug.com /db/24710 (430 words)

	Juan Cruz Reyes, Busto de Dolores del Río. Andres Blaisten Museum
		Dolores Asúnsolo López was born in 1904 into an aristocratic family from the state of Durango.
		The year 1940 was a trying one for the actress: along with professional concerns, she divorced her second husband in March and her father died in Los Angeles in July.
		The sculptor thus confirmed del Río's new identity as a national star, rather than that sophisticated “Latin” flapper who had had “abandoned” her homeland for Hollywood in the 1920.
	www.museoblaisten.com /02asp/english/paintingEnglish.asp?numID=462&sala=&lang=eng (286 words)

	Alfredo de Batuc: Dolores del Río -Artist´s Statment
		From an early age Dolores Del Río was involved in the arts, especially dancing and singing, done as family divertissements in the confines of the good taste of that period.
		There Del Río joined a creative group of artists and soon was playing more complex and challenging roles that afforded her a better space to use her talent.
		Her first documented participation in public art was as a model for a mural in Mexico City, and her posthumous starring role is in another: the Dolores Del Río mural in Hollywood.
	www.debatuc.com /dolores/aboutddr.html (477 words)

	Dolores del Río - Artes e Historia México
		Dolores del Río conoció a fondo el paroxismo de la rigidez social y anímica que heredó de su familia política, acostumbrada a la educación religiosa, a la mezcla de sangres aristocráticas entre calses privilegiadas.
		Fue la esposa del abogado Jaime Martínez del Río, víctima, a su vez, de las buenas costumbres, escritor frustrado, aparado por la alta sociedad, lector insigne frente a la chimenea de su casa, marido ejemplar.
		Dolores decide regresar a México cuando las oportunidades ya son nulas, segura de que puede conseguir historias adecuadas, su propio director y camarógrafo.
	www.arts-history.mx /sitios/index.php?id_sitio=482928&id_seccion=880787&id_subseccion=2625251&id_documento=2452 (1198 words)

	Restos de Dolores del Rio iran a la Rotonda de Personas Ilustres \| terra
		México, 24 nov (EFE)- Los restos de la actriz Dolores del Río, la escritora Emma Godoy y la jurista María Lavalle Urbina serán trasladados el próximo martes a la Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres de la capital mexicana en reconocimiento a sus aportes a México.
		Dolores del Río (1904-1983) fue una actriz que destacó en teatro, en el cine mudo y el sonorizado, que sobresalió en Hollywood y fue una las principales figuras de la época de oro del cine mexicano que alcanzó una de las más altas proyecciones a nivel internacional.
		Con la presencia de estas tres destacadas mujeres se incrementa la presencia de personalidades del sexto femenino en la Rotonda, un espacio para destacar a hombres y mujeres que han dejado grandes aportes al país.
	www.terra.com /noticias/articulo/html/act658957.htm (475 words)

	Dolores del Río Summary
		Del Rio dropped her "femme fatale" image and through Gabriel Figueroa's camera and Emilio Fernández's direction she helped create the so-called Mexican Cinema Golden Era, winning the Ariel (the Mexican equivalent of the Academy Award) three times, in 1946, 1952, and 1954.
		In 1921 at the age of 16, she married Jaime del Río, and through a Hollywood friend the couple emigrated to the USA with the plan of establishing show business careers for themselves: as screenwriter and actress, respectively.
		The marriage ended in divorce, but del Río retained her married name, continued to pursue a career as an actress, and made her first film appearance in Joanna (1925) in which Hollywood first noticed her appeal as a sex siren, but struggled against the "Mexicali Rose" image initially pitched to her by Hollywood executives.
	www.bookrags.com /Dolores_del_Rio (726 words)

	The Invention of Dolores del Río (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dolores del Río first came to Hollywood from Mexico in 1925 and within a year had become an international star for her role in Raoul Walsh's 1926 film What Price Glory.
		This image-carefully crafted by her producers, her studio publicists, and by del Río herself-reveals many fascinating insights into Hollywood's evolving attitudes toward race and femininity.
		In The Invention of Dolores del Río, Joanne Hershfield explores the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and stardom in American popular culture through the lens of del Río's successful and unusually lengthy career, which lasted until the 1960s.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/H/hershfield_dolores.html (198 words)

	San Antonio Current - A BELLYFULL ON THE RIVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dolores is secluded, tucked in a dark room up a narrow flight of stairs, with no view of the river.
		Owner Stephania Baldesarelli trains all six of Delores del Rio's performers, and is a renowned professional dancer.
		We also discovered that the musical duo — David Marquez and Carl O' Laughlin — are part of the waitstaff, as are many of the musical guests that bring their talents to the restaurant — an entertainment arrangement entirely appropriate for the quasi-speakeasy setting.
	www.sacurrent.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=4278964&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=8 (855 words)

	Mexican Beauty - Dolores Del Rio. BY Maggie Van Ostrand
		Though only five foot three inches in height, Dolores del Rio appeared to be tall on cinema screens all over the world.
		She starred in "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in supporting roles, and she was still a star when she appeared in Woody Allen's 1983 film, "Zelig." Precious few other actresses have retained both beauty and stardom for over fifty professional years.
		In American films, Del Rio's leading men ran the gamut from Henry Fonda, in 1947's "The Fugitive," to Elvis Presley, in 1960's "Flaming Star." Though she looked far too young to play Elvis' mother, he was so enchanted that he insisted she be cast.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/mvanostrand/mvo0205.html (644 words)

	Dolores del Río es mito, creación colectiva - Artes e Historia México
		La imagen de Dolores del Río y su mito han sido una creación colectiva, una parte integrante de nuestra cultura nacional, reconciliación de tradiciones antiguas con los medios del siglo XX.
		Relatan sus biógrafos que la diva del cine mexicano “fue una estrella luminosa, en una época en que el cielo estaba menos poblado y era más diáfano”, y que su presencia en la pantalla se reiteraba en la foto y en su majestuoso andar por el escenario social, acompañada de destacados artistas e intelectuales.
		Dolores del Río tiene la inmortalidad de las estrellas que, brillantes, habitan el firmamento lejos de nosotros los mortales condenados a admirarla.
	www.arts-history.mx /banco/index.php?id_nota=09082004154758 (299 words)

	Flying Down to Rio
		Dolores del Rio is allowed a romance with an Anglo amour.
		Del Rio was typecast in the silent era as a variety of exotic beauties, but once the talkies came in her accent limited her to more strictly Latina roles.
		They manage to make a brilliant impression, separately and together in Flying Down to Rio, in spite of their lack of screen time, and they are more relaxed and funny here than they are in many of their later films.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDFlyingDowntoRio.htm (1780 words)

	Dolores Del Rio - AskTheBrain.com
		Portions of the 1929 silent movie Evangeline, starring actress Dolores Del Rio, were filmed in Iberia Parish.
		Dolores del Rio, the legendary Mexican actress and one of film's great beauties, is at her best and most stunning in this tragic tale of long-lost love.
		The shipboard scenes, full of sinuous tracking shots through crowded bulkheads, are particularly memorable, as is a nightclub act featuring Dolores Del Rio that displays Welles' love for magic and sleight of hand.
	www.askthebrain.com /del_dolore_rio-.html (206 words)

	Dolores del Rio - Biography
		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).
		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.
		Eventually they were divorced after Dolores made her first film, Joanna (1925).
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0003123/bio (616 words)

	Dolores Del Rio Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Del Rio's career in the 1920s and 30s unfortunately suffered from too many exotic, two-dimensional roles designed with Hollywood's cliched ideas of ethnic minorities in mind.
		Her best-remembered film from this period is "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), which partnered Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for the first time.
		One of her more interesting parts was her last American lead, in "Journey Into Fear" (1942), set up by and co-starring Del Rio's then paramour, Orson Welles.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198257 (418 words)

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