Dolores Del Rio World War I Film What Price Glory 1926 Still Photograph
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Fox Film production still photograph from the 1926 World War I drama "What Price Glory". Dolores Del Rio plays the daughter of an innkeeper who has the affections of two American soldiers. Max Munn Autrey has taken this photo of the actress 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.
Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock with handwritten notations on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Dolores Del Rio:
Easily one of the most beautiful women of her era and one of the most gorgeous people ever to make it to the ranks of film stardom. Del Rio's career in the 1920s and 30s unfortunately suffered from too many exotic, two-dimensional roles designed with Hollywood's cliched ideas of ethnic minorities in mind. Her best-remembered film from this period is "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), which partnered Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for the first time. One of her more interesting parts was her last American lead, in "Journey Into Fear" (1942), set up by and co-starring Del Rio's then paramour, Orson Welles. It took a return to the stage and screen in her native Mexico (where she won that country's equivalent of a Best Actress Oscar four times and was lauded as "the first lady of Mexican theater") and later Hollywood character parts (e.g., in John Ford's "The Fugitive" 1947 and his "Cheyenne Autumn" 1964) for her talent to be fully displayed.
Biography From: TCM | Turner Classic Movies
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.
Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock with handwritten notations on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Dolores Del Rio:
Easily one of the most beautiful women of her era and one of the most gorgeous people ever to make it to the ranks of film stardom. Del Rio's career in the 1920s and 30s unfortunately suffered from too many exotic, two-dimensional roles designed with Hollywood's cliched ideas of ethnic minorities in mind. Her best-remembered film from this period is "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), which partnered Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for the first time. One of her more interesting parts was her last American lead, in "Journey Into Fear" (1942), set up by and co-starring Del Rio's then paramour, Orson Welles. It took a return to the stage and screen in her native Mexico (where she won that country's equivalent of a Best Actress Oscar four times and was lauded as "the first lady of Mexican theater") and later Hollywood character parts (e.g., in John Ford's "The Fugitive" 1947 and his "Cheyenne Autumn" 1964) for her talent to be fully displayed.
Biography From: TCM | Turner Classic Movies
