Biographies: Dolores del Rio - Actor

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Dolores del Rio was a Mexican actress, born in Durango, Mexico, on August 3, 1904, as Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete. She was the recipient of the Ariel Award (the Mexican Oscar) three times in 1954, 1952, and 1946, and a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. She married Mexican screenwriter Jaime Del Rio (1922-1928), then married director Cedric Gibbons (1930-1941), then married Lewis Riley (1959-1983), and remained with him until her death. Among her most important films are Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Abandoned (1945), and Dona Perfecta (1951). In 1922, after she married the rich writer Jaime, they moved to Hollywood and broke into the world of cinema, she as an actress, and he as a screenwriter. In 1930, she married the director and production designer at MGM Cedric Gibbons. In her later days, she received awards for her work for orphaned children, and her last work was The Children of Sanchez (1978) with the star Anthony Quinn. She was a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1957 and a member of the jury of the Berlin International Festival in 1962. She died on April 11, 1983, in Newport Beach, California, of liver failure.

• 17 March 2022
• Dalia Saad