Dolores Del Rio - Second of 3 postings

In 1930, after her divorce from Jaime del Rio, Dolores married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers. With the advent of talkies she was primarily relegated to exotic and unimportant roles, but did score successes with the lead roles in 1933's Flying Down to Rio (the film that launched the careers of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) and Madame DuBarry in1934.

In 1939 or 1940, a 25 year old Orson Welles fell madly in love with Dolores although he was 10 years her junior. In fact, the affair with Welles was reported to have been the cause of her divorce from Gibbons, though some contend it was Gibson's sexual orientation that caused the split. In 1943 she collaborated with Welles in the film Journey Into Fear.

As mentioned in the previous post, after abandoning Hollywood in the mid-40's, Dolores continued her career in Mexico where she won the Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) three times: on 1946 for Abandonadas, Las (1945); in 1952 for Doña Perfecta (1951) and in 1954 for Niño y la niebla, El (1953).

BTW, on Turner Classic Movies this Friday, March 30 at 7:45 A.M. Eastern, Dolores can be seen in 1932's Bird Of Paradise.

I wonder if Cher ever saw this picture?

Dolores Del Rio - What do you think? Allure?