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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Collection on Dolores del Río
Identifier/Call Number: 0521
Identifier/Call Number: 213
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1935-2000
Abstract: This small artificial collection contains various printed promotional items for Mexican and American productions starring
Mexican actor Dolores del Río (1904-1983), chiefly dating from 1928 to 1958.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian, English.
Container: 1
Dolores del Río (1904-1983) was a Mexican actor featured in more than 50 English- and Spanish-language movies. She began her
career in 1925 starring first in silent films and later in talkies. In 1942 she left Hollywood for Mexico City, where she
formed the first actor's union.
This small artificial collection contains various printed promotional items for Mexican and American productions starring
Mexican actor Dolores del Río (1904-1983), chiefly dating from 1928 to 1958. There are 9 lobby cards for the films Aquel Mexico
Lindo, Maria Candelaria (1944), Las Abandonadas (1945), La Otra (1946), four for El Nino y La Niebla (1953), and Adonde van
Nuestros Hijos (1958); 3 pieces of sheet music: Ramona (circa 1928); "Flying down to Rio" (1933), and "To call you my own"
from In Caliente (1935); 3 production stills: Ramona (1928), Wonder Bar (1934) and La Casa Chica (1950); a 1958 program titled:
"Teatro Fabregas Dolores del Rio en su debut 'El Abanico' de Oscar Wilde"; and 3 postcards: one from 1939 and one Las Abandonadas
reproduction (2 copies), ca. 2000. There is also the December 21, 1927, issue of
Rotográfico.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Collection on Dolores del Río, Collection no. 0521, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin
American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from various sources including Howard Karno Books, 2008.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actors -- Mexico -- Photographs
Advertising -- Motion pictures -- Archival resources
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Mexico -- Photographs
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Photographs
Motion pictures -- Photographs
Ephemera
Film stills
Photographs
Sheet music
Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983
Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983 -- Photographs