Pre - Code Island Pin - Up Dolores Del Rio Bird Of Paradise 1932 Vintage Photograph
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:2931922 | Size: 8" x 10" |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United States | Subject: Dolores del Rio |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Modified Item: No |
| Film: Bird of Paradise (1932) |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original RKO Radio Pictures production still photograph from the 1932 pre-code romantic adventure film Bird of Paradise. Golden Age of Hollywood actress Dolores del Rio features in the film alongside Joel McCrea. Wearing a strapless sarong dress and strands of beads around her neck, del Rio covers her ears with her hands as she gazes out of an open window during a scene from the film.
A Mexican actress, Dolores del Rio was the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood, with an outstanding career in American films in the 1920s and 1930s. She was also considered one of the more important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Del Rio is also remembered as one of the most beautiful faces of the cinema in her time. Her long and varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage and radio.
Measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Handwritten notations on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with emulsion loss in the top margin, soft corners, and light storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Dolores del Rio was the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and had a meteoric career in 1920s Hollywood (an extraordinary accomplishment for an Hispanic female on those years). She came from an aristocratic family in Durango. In the Mexican revolution of 1916, however, the family lost everything they had and emigrated to Mexico City, where Dolores became a socialite. In 1921 she married Jaime Del Río (also known as Jaime Martínez Del Río), a wealthy Mexican, and the two became friends with Hollywood producer/director Edwin Carewe. In a somewhat unorthodox manner, for those years, the couple moved to Hollywood where they expected to launch careers in the movie business (she as an actress, he as a screenwriter). Eventually they were divorced after Dolores made her first film, Joanna (1925). THe film was a success and Dolores was hailed as a female Rudolph Valentino. Her career rose until the arrival of sound in 1928. After a number of forgettable films, she married Cedric Gibbons, the well-known art director and production designer at MGM studios. Dolores returned to Mexico in 1942. Her Hollywood career was over, and a romance with Orson Welles--who later called her "the most exciting woman I've ever met"--caused her second divorce. Mexican director Emilio Fernández offered her the lead in his film Flor silvestre (1943), with a wholly unexpected result: at age 37, Dolores Del Río became the most famous movie star in her country, filming in Spanish for the first time. Her association with Fernández' team (cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, writer Mauricio Magdaleno and actor Pedro Armendáriz) was mainly responsible for creating what has been called the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema. With such pictures as María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944), The Abandoned (1945) and Bugambilia (1945), Del Río became the prototypical Mexican beauty in foreign countries. Her career included film, theater and television. In her last years she received accolades because of her work for orphaned children. Her last film was The Children of Sanchez (1978).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Maximiliano Maza
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