Dolores Del Rio
- Category : 1904-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 4/6 - Opportunistic / Role Model
- Definition : Split - Small (5,12,34,35)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Four Ways 2
Biography
Mexican-American actress, noted for retaining her youthful beauty, an advocate of diet, rest and yoga. She was on-screen from 1925 in "Joanna." She married a prestigious rancher but left for Hollywood three years later as her career blossomed. In 1930 she married director Cedric Gibbons for 10 years. After an affair with Orson Welles in 1942, she returned to Mexico. In 1959, she married producer-director Lewis A. Riley.
Though she had no kids herself, she founded Estancia Infantil in 12/1972, a nursery for the kids of working actresses.
Del Rio died of natural causes 4/11/1983, Newport Beach, CA.