Verónica Castro

She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel and have had an animosity towards soap opera actress Lucia Mendez. Dolores Costello is the grandmother of actress Drew Barrymore. Many of Veronica's private life's details have become items for paparazzi photographers and gossip magazines to feast on. Dolores Costello has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1645 Vine Street. Her son, Cristian Castro, is a teen idol singer all over Latin America and is the son of a famous Mexican comedian Manuel El Loco Valdez who never married Castro. Her interview scenes were broadcast posthumously in 1980. Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. She died from emphysema in Fallbrook, California in 1979.

In 1990 Castro participated in Mi Pequeña Soledad, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape. Shortly before her death, she agreed to be interviewed for the documentary series Hollywood discussing her film career. The theme song for that soap opera, also named Rosa Salvaje, became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer. She retired in 1943. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa Salvaje alongside Guillermo Capetillo. Costello attempted to resume her career and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). This soap became a success in Latin America, Spain, France, Russia, China and the Philippines. 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.

Her career took-off with Los Ricos También Lloran, playing a poor maid in a Mexican version of Cinderella. 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. She started her career as an actress in TV shows and soap operas. In 1926 she starred along with John Barrymore in The Sea Beast and after a two year affair, the couple married in 1928. Verónica Castro is a well-known Mexican actress and singer. 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.