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 has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (TV, Movie, Song). She died from liver disease at Laguna Beach, California and was buried at in the Panteón de Dolores cemetery (no relation) in Mexico City. In addition to a series of successful TV shows, over 30 movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known songs "Happy Trails" and "The Bible Tells Me So". In 1960 she starred with Elvis Presley in the US Western Flaming Star directed by Don Siegel. Her life inspired Evans to write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". She was nominated for Mexico's Silver Ariel Award five times, winning two awards for her performances. Rogers and Evans had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before her second birthday.

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. Rogers and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946 until Rogers death in 1998. She returned to Mexico in 1942. Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Her collaboration with Welles, Journey Into Fear (1942), was her last major Hollywood film. Evans married Roy Rogers on New Years Eve 1946. An affair with Orson Welles was reported to have been the cause of her divorce from Gibbons in 1941. This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios.

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). During her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage "brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr. In 1930, she married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers. After beginning her career singing at the radio station where she was employed as a secretary, Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and big band singer which lead to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. 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 married her accompianist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, but initially struggled to overcome prejudice. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930's to promote her singing career.

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. Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from him in 1933. 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. at 15. 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. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. Born Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete in Durango, Mexico, del Río was the cousin of actor Ramón Novarro. Fox at 14.

She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and became an important actress in Mexican films later in her life. Evans had a tumultuous early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas F. Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 - April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. Lucille Wood Smith name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith famous as Dale Evans (31 October 1912 - 7 February 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.