Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street, in recognition of her contributions to the motion picture industry. Evans was knighted as a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1946. She died from liver disease at Laguna Beach, California and was buried at in the Panteón de Dolores cemetery (no relation) in Mexico City. From then until 1977, she made several acclaimed films, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Whisperers (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), Tom Jones (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Slipper and the Rose, The Nun's Story, The Chalk Garden (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Madwoman of Chaillot, Crooks and Coronets and Nasty Habits. In 1960 she starred with Elvis Presley in the US Western Flaming Star directed by Don Siegel. Born in London, she began a film career in 1915, but was noted mostly for her stage work until she appeared in the 1949 film The Last Days of Dolwyn. She was nominated for Mexico's Silver Ariel Award five times, winning two awards for her performances. Dame Edith Mary Evans (February 8, 1888 - October 14, 1976) was a British actress.

She was soon approached by director Emilio Fernández, and she began making Spanish-language films that brought her great success in Mexico over the next twenty years. She returned to Mexico in 1942. Her collaboration with Welles, Journey Into Fear (1942), was her last major Hollywood film. An affair with Orson Welles was reported to have been the cause of her divorce from Gibbons in 1941.

With the advent of talkies she was usually relegated to exotic and unimportant roles, but scored successes with Flying Down to Rio (the film that launched the careers of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1933) and Madame DuBarry (1934). In 1930, she married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers. She came to be admired as one of the most beautiful women on screen, and her career flourished until the end of the silent era. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, but initially struggled to overcome prejudice.

The marriage ended in divorce but del Río retained her married name, continued to pursue a career as an actress, and made her first film appearance in 1925. In 1921 she married Jaime del Río, and through a Hollywood friend the couple emigrated to the USA with the plan of establishing showbusiness careers for themselves: screenwriter and actress, respectively. Her wealthy family lost all their assets during the Mexican Revolution, and a desire to restore her comfortable lifestyle inspired her to follow a career as an actress. Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, del Río was the cousin of actor Ramón Novarro.

She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and became an important actress in Mexican films later in her life. Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 - April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress.