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Among the most prominent Hollywood stars to emerge from Mexico, actress, dancer, and philanthropist Dolores del Rio (née María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete) was born into an aristocratic family in Durango that was dispossessed during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s. In 1924, after meeting filmmaker Edwin Carewe, who dubbed her ‘the female equivalent of Rudolf Valentino’, she moved to the United States and began a lucrative career in silent film, later transitioning successfully into the sound era. For over 50 years, Dolores del Rio was a paragon of the silver screen and a fashion icon. Marlene Dietrich is quoted as saying, ‘Dolores del Río was the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in Hollywood’.
Photo: Dolores del Rio is in the foreground with a friend by her side. Immersed in watery depths, she gleams, a crimson jewel adorning her tresses, mirroring the bold hue of her lips. Her friend, perched on the pool's rim, bathed in sunshine, wears a yellow, strapless and sleek swimsuit, her brow crowned with crimson. Both radiate grace and splendour amid a verdant paradise of palms and tropical blooms.
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