Dolores Del Rio - What do you think? Allure?
Monday, March 19, 2007
Dolores Del Rio - First of 3 postings
Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, in April 1905, she was the second cousin of actor Ramón Novarro. Her family lost all their assets during the 1916 Mexican Revolution. Then in 1921, at the age of 16, she married a wealthy 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. The marriage ended in divorce, but Dolores retained her married name, continued to pursue a career as an actress, and made her first film appearance in Joanna (1925). Hollywood immediately noticed her appeal and she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars (search other posts to learn more about the WAMPAS stars) in 1926 along with fellow newcomers Joan Crawford, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor, and Mary Astor. Her career flourished through the silent era, and continued in Mexican cinema during the 40's and beyond.
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She was absolutely stunning, a perfect classic beauty. In certain photographs (not the ones you have posted) her face looks oddly male to me, for reasons I have never been able to pin down. But she seems to have left every man in Hollywood panting after her.
I will be posting the next in the series of three soon, and will be providing some more info - this is a sneak peek at that information for those who read these comments - it wasn't only the men - Marlene Dietrich said she considered Delores the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
Ok you’re not going to believe this.
But I'll try anyway. In short, she's my father's mother's sister. My father divorced my mama because he though I wasn’t his... bla bla, turns out I am the only one that looks like her the most of all the immediate/extended family. I don’t look like anyone on my mother’s side always leaving me to wonder who I resembled. I visited my father in 1997 where he pulled out a very old framed picture of Dolores's sister (my grandmother) and I broke out in tears. I kid you not, it was like looking in a mirror. I later learned who Dolores was and was intrigued. Now that I know who I resemble, I'm trying to find out all I can about how she lived. Please don’t take this as a prank and I'm not crazy. Please feel free to view my myspace and see for yourself... http://www.myspace.com/mynumb3rs or
I can email some.
Anyway, I'm interested in any photos, films, and writings, really anything. Perhaps you know someone who does, you can point me in the right direction...?
numb3rz@msn.com
Thank you in advance,
Andrea Casillas
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