Frequently referred to as the "Princess of Mexico," screen legend Dolores Del Rio was one of the biggest stars her native...
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1999
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This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half...
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1999
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Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a...
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Grandma
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1978
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A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged...
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Queen Mother
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1967
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1966
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Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) heads to Los Angeles to deliver a gold shipment worth $50,000. At the same time, Mexican...
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1966
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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The unbeatable combination of both Dolores del Rio and Libertad Lamarque co-starring in this three-hanky melodrama about the...
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1962
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Neddy Burton
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1960
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Soldiers of Pancho Villa is the English-language title for the Mexican historical epic La Cucaracha. The matchless Maria...
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1959
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Four of the best-known, most popular actors in Mexican cinematic history star in this drama about the Mexican Revolution by...
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Chabela
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1959
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In Torero, real-life matador Luis Procuna plays the leading role, an aspiring bullfighter who must overcome his fear of bulls...
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1956
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1954
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1954
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The Mexican comedy Reportaje follows the wacky adventures that ensue when a man offers a large reward to the journalist that...
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1953
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Director Alejandro Galindo directs the legendary Delores Del Rio in a classic drama from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema...
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1951
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1950
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La Casa Chica is a sad little tale about two sad little people. Dolores Del Rio, still dazzlingly beautiful at 45, stars as...
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Amalia Estrada
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1949
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Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter...
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1949
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Oscar Wilde might have been amused to learn that his epigrammatic stage comedy-drama Lady Windemere's Fan was filmed in...
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Mrs. Erlynne
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1948
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Mexican Woman
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1948
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The lovely Dolores Del Rio has an acting field day in the Mexican La Otra (The Other). Del Rio plays twin sisters, one the...
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Magdalena Mendez,Maria Mendez
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1946
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Mexican helmer Emilio Fernandez's unusual period drama Las Abandonadas (The Abandoned) unfurls in Mexico at the turn of the...
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1945
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1945
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Actress Dolores del Rio teams up with one of her frequent directors, Emilio Fernández, for the melodrama Bugambilia. She...
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1944
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The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked...
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Maria Candelaria
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1944
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Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the...
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Esperanza
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1943
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Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to...
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Josette Marlel
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1942
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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Eugenia, "Jenny"
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1940
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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Lenore Dixon
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1938
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Carmen
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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Fraulein Dolores Daria Sunnell
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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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Accused is a British melodrama starring American actor (and confirmed Anglophile) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Somewhat...
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Gaby Seymour
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed...
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Inez
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1936
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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Donna Alvares
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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Rita Gomez
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1935
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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Inez
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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Mme. Du Barry
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1934
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Belinha de Rezende
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1933
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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Dolores
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1932
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Luana
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1932
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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Lita
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1930
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Evangeline
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1929
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The 1928 production Ramona was the third film version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name, first dramatized (in...
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Ramona
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1928
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Based upon The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates, The Red Dance is a silent film (released with a synchronized...
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Tasia
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1928
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Mexican-born Dolores Del Rio is convincingly cast as a fiery Hungarian lass in Revenge. Yet another variation on...
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Rascha
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1928
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Gateway of the Moon is set in Bolivia (with Southern California serving as a "stand-in"). Dolores Del Rio stars as Toni, the...
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Toni
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1928
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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Berna
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1928
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Carmelita de Granados
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1928
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Previously filmed three times (in America, at least), Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel Resurrection was once more brought to the...
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Katyusha Maslova
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1927
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Carmen
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1927
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This drama was a hint that perhaps the Jazz Age was beginning to wind down; its characters overcome their wild, wicked ways...
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1926
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Jeanne Lamont
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1926
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From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI comedy-drama What Price...
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Charmaine de la Cognac
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1926
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Dorothy Mackaill is well-cast as a high-living flapper in this lively picture, which was based on the popular newspaper...
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1925
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