Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río in 1947

Dolores del Río (August 3, 1904 – April 11, 1983, birth name María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete) 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.

Dolores Del Río Media

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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 in Joanna (1925)

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  Del Río in Ramona (1928)

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  Dolores del Río in Evangeline (1929)

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  Dolores del Río in Bird of Paradise (1932)

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  Del Río and Fred Astaire in Flying Down to Rio (1933).

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  Del Río in Madame Du Barry (1934).

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  Del Río with Joseph Cotten in Journey into Fear (1943)

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  Dolores del Río in a photograph taken by Annemarie Heinrich, c. 1948

Other websites

• Dolores del Río on IMDb