Dolores del Río
Birthday: 1904-08-03
Place of Birth: Durango, Mexico
Biography: Dolores del Río (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983) was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Later in life, she became an important actress in Mexican films. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her era, and was the first Latin American movie star to have international appeal. In the Silent film era, Del Rio was considered a counterpart to Rudolph Valentino. With the arrival of the talkies, she became one of the principal Art Deco symbols of beauty. Del Río was one of the principal stars of Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was frequently called the "Princess of México".
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La malquerida
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
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Journey into Fear
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ...
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Mexico 68: Snapshots
Experimental documentary short film with a prologue by José Revueltas about the 1968 Mexico City Oly...
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Flying Down to Rio
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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Maria Candelaria
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his ...
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More Than a Miracle
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, whe...
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The Fugitive
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary govern...
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The Whole Town's Talking
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his hea...
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The Sculptor's Dream
A sculptor dreams about his work coming to life and having various adventures....
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Flaming Star
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle sta...
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Bird of Paradise
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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Doña Perfecta
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe...
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Wild Flower
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the fo...
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Accused
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for...
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The Abandoned
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her so...
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Lancer Spy
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a nationa...
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Bugambilia
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the ...
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What Price Glory
U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in Chi...
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The Love Nest
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the to...
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Torero!
The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and th...
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Wonder Bar
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t...
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The Trail of '98
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in ...
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The Other
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister....
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The Man from Dakota
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates....
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Evangeline
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forci...
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The Red Dance
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, ...
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International Settlement
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers...
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In Caliente
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print....
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befrien...
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Madame du Barry
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry ch...
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The Boy and the Fog
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she ...
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Ramona
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent...
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Resurrection
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years ...
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The Bad One
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for ...
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The Sin of a Mother
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later......
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Devil's Playground
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture...
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Desired
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with...
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The Loves of Carmen
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but ...
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Where Are Our Children Going?
One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they thin...
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The Jungle of Fire
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festiv...
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies....
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Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....
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The Voice of Hollywood
The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Land...
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro...
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The Lady of the Dawn
It is three years since Martín's wife, Angélica, mysteriously disappeared in the waters of the river...
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A Dream Comes True
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Historia de una mala mujer
A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago....
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No Other Woman
Frenchman is engaged to marry South American heiress but a fortune-hunting friend disrupts the roman...
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Revenge
Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa, the Gypsy bear tamer, swears revenge on Jorga, her father's enem...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...
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The Gateway of the Moon
To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ru...
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High Steppers
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In searc...
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Joanna
Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollar...
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Pals First
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his c...
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The Children of Sanchez
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of San...
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an A...
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