Dolores Del RioFilmography

Born:: August 3, 1905 in Durango, Mexico
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Lolita Dolores Martinez Asunsolo Lopez Negrette
Biography:: Born into an aristocratic Mexican family, actress Dolores Del Rio was the daughter of a prominent banker. After a convent education, she was married at age 16 to writer Jaime Del Rio, whose name she retained long after the marriage had dissolved. The second cousin of silent film star Ramon...Read More

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Dolores del Rio: Princesa de Mexico

Synopsis: Frequently referred to as the "Princess of Mexico," screen legend Dolores Del Rio was one of the biggest stars her native country had ever spawned. Eventually rising to international acclaim thanks to roles in such unforgettable films as Girl of the Rio and Doña Perfecta, Del Rio's mesmerizing Read More

1999
Hispanic Hollywood

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Dolores Del Rio, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, José Ferrer

Synopsis: This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half of the 20th century. Stars such as Jimmy Smits, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, and others discuss their experiences as Hispanic actors. They reflect on prejudices and Read More

1999
The Children of Sanchez

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, Dolores Del Rio, Stathis Giallelis, Lucia Mendez

Synopsis: Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the novel The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also Read More

1978
C'era una Volta

Actors: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Del Rio, Georges Wilson, Leslie French

Synopsis: A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but he balks at marrying a woman whom he doesn't love, and rides away on his horse rather than face the altar. While riding Read More

10/19/67
Casa de Mujeres

1966
Branded: The Ghost of Murietta

Synopsis: Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) heads to Los Angeles to deliver a gold shipment worth $50,000. At the same time, Mexican teenager Juan Molinera (Jose DeVega) dreams of reviving the memory of notorious bandido Joaquin Murietta. To do this, Juan intends to steal the gold in Jason's possession--a task Read More

1966
La Dama Del Alba

1965
Cheyenne Autumn

Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden

Synopsis: John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their Read More

1964
El Pecado de Una Madre

Actors: Libertad Lamarque, Dolores Del Rio, Enrique Rambal, Teresa Velazquez

Synopsis: The unbeatable combination of both Dolores del Rio and Libertad Lamarque co-starring in this three-hanky melodrama about the self-sacrificing love of a mother makes this otherwise unexceptional film a people's favorite. Lamarque plays the mistress of a married man and del Rio has the role of his Read More

1962
Flaming Star

Actors: Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Dolores Del Rio, John McIntire, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Tensely directed by Don Siegel, Flaming Star is the grittiest of Elvis Presley's post-Army films. Elvis plays Pacer Burton, a half-breed youth in the old West, torn between loyalty to the whites, as represented by his father (John McIntyre), and the Indians, represented by his mother (Dolores Del Rio Read More

1960
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa

Synopsis: Soldiers of Pancho Villa is the English-language title for the Mexican historical epic La Cucaracha. The matchless Maria Felix stars as a patriotic young woman whose admiration for Villa borders on the fanatical. Maria rallies her countrymen to stand by Villa in his fight to wrest control of Read More

1959
La Cucaracha

Actors: Maria Felix, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Flor Silvestre

Synopsis: Four of the best-known, most popular actors in Mexican cinematic history star in this drama about the Mexican Revolution by equally well-known director Ismael Rodriguez. Maria Felix is Refugio and Dolores Del Rio is Chabela, two women who love the same man and who are both equally dedicated to Read More

1959
Torero

Synopsis: In Torero, real-life matador Luis Procuna plays the leading role, an aspiring bullfighter who must overcome his fear of bulls -- and of crowds -- to achieve success. Also given ample screen time are such enduring bullring favorites as Arruza and Manolette. Much of the picture is comprised of Read More

1956
Senora Ama

1954
What Has Become of Our Children

1954
Reportaje

Synopsis: The Mexican comedy Reportaje follows the wacky adventures that ensue when a man offers a large reward to the journalist that can uncover the best news story that occurs during New Year's Eve. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1953
Doña Perfecta

Synopsis: Director Alejandro Galindo directs the legendary Delores Del Rio in a classic drama from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema that portrays political change in Mexico through the microcosm of one family struggling with tradition in a time of change. Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit Read More

1951
Deseada

1950
La Malquerida

Synopsis: Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has Read More

1949
La Casa Chica

Actors: Dolores Del Rio

Synopsis: La Casa Chica is a sad little tale about two sad little people. Dolores Del Rio, still dazzlingly beautiful at 45, stars as Amalia Estrado, an intern at the National University medical school in Mexico City. Amalia becomes the assistant to a research scientist (Roberto Canedo), who is engaged to Read More

1949
The Fugitive

Actors: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: The Fugitive was shot on location in Mexico by that country's premiere cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa. Henry Fonda plays a Christ-like priest in an unnamed Latin-American country where religion has been outlawed. Though incognito in a backwater village, Fonda cannot help but seem more spiritual Read More

1948
Historia de Una Mala Mujer

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Alberto Closas

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde might have been amused to learn that his epigrammatic stage comedy-drama Lady Windemere's Fan was filmed in Argentina in 1947 under a title which translates as The Story of a Bad Women. Agelessly beautiful Dolores Del Rio stars as the bewitching Miss Erlyne, a woman "with a history" Read More

1948
La Otra

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Victor Junco

Synopsis: The lovely Dolores Del Rio has an acting field day in the Mexican La Otra (The Other). Del Rio plays twin sisters, one the wife of a millionaire and the other a poverty-stricken manicurist. Seething with jealousy, the manicurist kills her wealthy sister and takes her place. Little does the "bad" Read More

1946
Las Abandonadas

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Dolores Del Rio

Synopsis: Mexican helmer Emilio Fernandez's unusual period drama Las Abandonadas (The Abandoned) unfurls in Mexico at the turn of the 20th century, where a young bride-to-be is suddenly jilted by her chauvinistic fiancé. Bereft of a partner, she must support herself and her son and take on the difficulties Read More

1945
La Selva de Fuego

1945
Bugambilia

Synopsis: Actress Dolores del Rio teams up with one of her frequent directors, Emilio Fernández, for the melodrama Bugambilia. She stars as the spoiled-rotten daughter of a local miner, who falls blindly into a self-destructive romance with a local gentleman (Pedro Armendariz - little realizing that Read More

1944
Maria Candelaria

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Beatriz Ramos, Miguel Inclan

Synopsis: The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked for an artist and was stoned to death because of the incident. She must consider the consequences while making a similar choice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1944
Flor Silvestre

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the US-and not until two years after its initial Mexican release. Also known as Wildflower, the film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share Read More

1943
Journey into Fear

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Jack Durant, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to vacate the director's chair in favor of Norman Foster. Joseph Cotten, who starred as an American gunnery engineer up to his armpits in international intrigue, adapted the Read More

1942
The Man from Dakota

Actors: Wallace Beery, John Howard, Dolores Del Rio, Donald Meek, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant who, along with his superior officer (John Howard), is captured and incarcerated in a Confederate prison. Upon escaping, Beery and Howard cross the path of Dolores Del Rio Read More

1940
International Settlement

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Ruth Terry

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates. Unfortunately, his contact has died and the money has disappeared. He being pursued by other smugglers when Japanese bombs are dropped. He is saved from the firestorm by a French Read More

1938
Ali Baba Goes to Town

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young, June Lang, Louise Hovick

Synopsis: Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the process. The filmmakers try to buy him off, but nurse Dinah (Virginia Field) suggests he be hired as an extra. He takes an overdose of painkillers, and his Arabian Nights Read More

1937
Lancer Spy

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Field

Synopsis: Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an uncanny resemblance to the recently-captured Baron Kurt von Rohbach (also Sanders). Rohbach is highly connected in the German aristocracy, and his capture has been kept Read More

1937
Devil's Playground

Actors: Richard Dix, Dolores Del Rio, Chester Morris, George McKay, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but Read More

1937
Accused

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dolores Del Rio, Florence Desmond, Basil Sydney, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: Accused is a British melodrama starring American actor (and confirmed Anglophile) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Somewhat incongruously cast as an Apache dancer, Fairbanks and his dance partner/wife Dolores Del Rio headline a Paris musical. Fairbanks becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of Read More

1936
The Widow from Monte Carlo

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

1936
In Caliente

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo, Edward Everett Horton, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien plays magazine editor Larry MacArthur, whose scathingly negative review of tempestuous dancer La Espanita (Dolores Del Rio) has incurred the lady's considerable wrath. Read More

1935
I Live for Love

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen. Dolores Del Rio stars as hot-tempered South American stage favorite Donna Alvarez, who is brought to America to headline a Broadway show. The film details the backstage romance Read More

1935
Madame Du Barry

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory, Osgood Perkins, Veree Teasdale

Synopsis: No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican accent held in check, the ravishingly beautiful Dolores Del Rio plays 18th-century French courtesan DuBarry like a 20th-century golddigger on the make. Brought to Versailles Read More

1934
Wonder Bar

Actors: Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Al Jolson, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez

Synopsis: Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris' Montmartre district. Presiding over the evening's entertainment is manager-emcee Al Wonder (Jolson), who after greeting his guests in a multitude of languages (a la Joel Grey in Cabaret Read More

1934
Flying Down to Rio

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

Synopsis: The top-billed stars in the extravagant RKO musical Flying Down to Rio are Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond. Forget all that: this is the movie that first teamed Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. We're supposed to care about the romantic triangle between aviator/bandleader Raymond, Brazilian heiress Read More

1933
Girl of the Rio

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Leo Carrillo, Norman Foster, Ralph Ince, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer who attracts the eye of her boss, slick gambler Don Jose (Leo Carrillo). When Dolores falls for handsome gringo Johnny Powell (Norman Foster), Don Jose pulls a few strings Read More

1932
Bird of Paradise

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Lon Chaney, Jr., Richard "Skeets" Gallagher

Synopsis: Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to transform the Richard Walton Tully original into RKO's "prestige" offering of 1932. Joel McCrea stars as a Read More

1932
The Bad One

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Edmund Lowe, Don Alvarado, Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues. The sailor kills his rival Read More

1930
Evangeline

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Roland Drew, Alec B. Francis, Donald Reed, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline briefly abandoned the curriculum of English Literature 101 for the purposes of this part-talkie screen adaptation. Dolores Del Rio stars as the title character, an Acadian lass whose marriage to kinsman Gabriel (Roland Drew) is forestalled by Read More

1929
The Trail of '98

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Harry Carey, Karl Dane, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic account of the Alaskan gold rush. Unlike Chaplin's version of the same era story, which combined hardship with comedy and culminated with a happy ending, Clarence Brown's film is Read More

1928
No Other Woman

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Don Alvarado, Paulette Duval, Ben Bard

1928
Ramona

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Warner Baxter, Roland Drew, Vera Lewis, Michael Visaroff

Synopsis: The 1928 production Ramona was the third film version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name, first dramatized (in one reel!) by D. W. Griffith in 1910. Dolores Del Rio plays the title character, the ward of domineering California sheep rancher Senora Moreno (Vera Lewis). Escaping her Read More

1928
The Red Dance

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Charles Farrell, Ivan Linow, Boris Charsky, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: Based upon The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates, The Red Dance is a silent film (released with a synchronized score, to take advantage of the commercial allure that "sound" added to films in 1928) that paints a picture of Russia before, during and after the Soviet Revolution. Tasia Read More

1928
Revenge

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, James Marcus, LeRoy Mason, Rita Carewe

Synopsis: Mexican-born Dolores Del Rio is convincingly cast as a fiery Hungarian lass in Revenge. Yet another variation on The Taming of the Shrew, the film concentrates on the tempestuous relationship between whip-wielding Rascha (Del Rio), the daughter of a bear tamer, and virile Hussar officer Jorga (Leroy Mason Read More

1928
The Gateway of the Moon

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Ted McNamara

Synopsis: Gateway of the Moon is set in Bolivia (with Southern California serving as a "stand-in"). Dolores Del Rio stars as Toni, the half-caste niece of corrupt railroad foreman George Gillespie (Anders Randolph). When British railroad inspector Arthur Wyatt (Walter Pidgeon) shows up in the region to Read More

1928
Resurrection

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Marc MacDermott, Lucy Beaumont, Vera Lewis

Synopsis: Previously filmed three times (in America, at least), Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel Resurrection was once more brought to the screen in 1927. Dolores Del Rio plays the beleaguered heroine Katusha, who is seduced and abandoned early in the proceedings by the callous Prince Dmitri (Rod LaRocque). Read More

1927
Loves of Carmen

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Don Alvarado, Victor McLaglen, Nancy Nash

Synopsis: Dolores Del Rio and director Raoul Walsh took on Prosper Mérimée with this sumptuous silent film produced by William Fox and originally tinted lavender. Del Rio was, of course, the gypsy cigar factory worker caught between two men: the bullfighter Escamillo (Victor McLaglen) and the soldier Don Read More

1927
High Steppers

Synopsis: This drama was a hint that perhaps the Jazz Age was beginning to wind down; its characters overcome their wild, wicked ways early in the film. Of course, there is still enough revelry to titillate 1926 audiences. As Julian Perryam, the likable but bland Lloyd Hughes is outclassed by his co-stars. Read More

1926
What Price Glory?

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver

Synopsis: From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI comedy-drama What Price Glory? was a center of controversy. Prudes and blue-noses condemned the play for its explicit language, while a group of politicians tried to bring about a federal action to Read More

1926
Pals First

Actors: Lloyd Hughes, Dolores Del Rio

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Frances Perry Elliot, Pals First paired film star Harold Lockwood with stage favorite James Lackaye. The story focuses on two hoboes, Danny (Lockwood) and The Dominie (Lackaye). Danny is on the lam from a murder charge, while Dominie, a defrocked minister, is running away from Read More

1926
Joanna

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Paul Nicholson, George Fawcett, Edwards Davis

Synopsis: Dorothy Mackaill is well-cast as a high-living flapper in this lively picture, which was based on the popular newspaper serial by H.L. Gates. Joanna Manners (Mackaill) is a salesgirl, and a rather lousy one at that. Nevertheless, she is loved by John Wilmot, a struggling young architect (Jack Read More

1925

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