Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello is the grandmother of actress Drew Barrymore. She graduated from Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon. Dolores Costello has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1645 Vine Street. Dominicci during her career as a reporter has won numerous awards, including a Emmy regional, a Paoli and a Ace (award). Her interview scenes were broadcast posthumously in 1980. Eventually, she got a job as a news reporter for a New York station, which she left in 2002 to join Univision's tv show Primer Impacto. She died from emphysema in Fallbrook, California in 1979. During the 1990s, Dominicci became active in the field of news reporting, and started appearing on tv news shows in Puerto Rico.

Shortly before her death, she agreed to be interviewed for the documentary series Hollywood discussing her film career. During the 1980s also, she married the internationally recognized actor Osvaldo Rios, also of Puerto Rico. Together, they had a son, named Guiliano Rios Dominicci. She retired in 1943. During this time also, she became a modeling instructor at Caguas' Polytechnical College, but she had to leave that job when her tv presence became more requested for by the public. Costello attempted to resume her career and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Later she began acting in Mini-Series (which is a term used for shorter, three or four chapter versions of telenovelas), which helped her become a household name and recognized figure in Puerto Rico. Her acting career became less of a priority for her following the birth of her children, however her marriage to Barrymore proved to be a difficult one due to his increasing alcoholism, and they were divorced in 1935. Dominicci, a native of Caguas, began appearing on tv commercials in Puerto Rico during the 1980s.

Costello spoke with a lisp, and found it difficult to make the transition to talking pictures, but after two years of voice coaching she was comfortable speaking before a microphone. Carmen Dominicci is a famous Puerto Rican actress and fashion model turned into a television newswoman or journalist. In 1926 she starred along with John Barrymore in The Sea Beast and after a two year affair, the couple married in 1928. By the mid twenties, she had become a successful and highly regarded film personality in her own right, and as a young adult her career developed to the degree that in 1926 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, and had acquired the name "The Goddess of the Silver Screen". The two sisters appeared on Broadway together and their success resulted in contracts with Warner Brothers Studios.

She made her first film appearances, along with her sister Helene, as a child in her father's films. Costello was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice and Mae Costello. Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 - March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies.