Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade

by Linda B. Hall and Linda Biesele Hall

Book Overview

Dolores del R o's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925, as both their well-to-do families suffered from the economic downturn that followed the Mexican Revolution. Far from being stigmatized as a woman of color, she was acknowledged as the epitome of beauty in the Hollywood of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799466
• ISBN13: 9780804799461
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"