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| Dolores del Rio |
Dolores del Rio
“Exercise, diet, beauty treatments –
these things are all a complete waste of time
because everyone must get older.
If women were more sensible
they would cease going to beauty parlors
for facials and would instead
lie down quietly in the peace of their bedrooms
for the same length of time
and arise more beautiful in face
and more peaceful in spirit.
The fact that I’m aging
makes me a part of life,
a part of the bigger scheme of existence…
It is my mind,
not my body,
that I am trying to preserve,
because
it is through the mind
that I can stay young.”
~ Dolores del Rio, 1964
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| Dolores del Rio |
Dolores del Río was a Mexican actress in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, and was one of the most important womanly figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered a mythical figure in Latin America and quintessential representation of the feminine face of Mexico in the world. She was the first Latin American female star to be recognized internationally. During the 1920s and 1930s in Hollywood, Dolores was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, the "Latin lover" in the silent films. Her career flourished until the end of the silent era and she was one of the few superstars of the silent era to adapt to the talkies in Hollywood.
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| Jacket - 1930 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
