Finding aid for the collection on Dolores Del Río 0521

Diann Benti

USC Libraries Special Collections

2021

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

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

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Contents

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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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Preferred Citation

[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