Dolores Del Rio : Beauty in Light and Shade
ISBN: 9780804784078 | 0804784078
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/9/2013
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Dolores del Rio'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, this Mexican star was acknowledged as the epitome of beauty in the Hollywood of the 1920s and early 1930s. While she insisted upon her ethnicity, she was nevertheless ... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Note on Translation and Orthography | p. xiii |
| Beauty, Celebrity, and Power in Two Cultures | p. 1 |
| Mexican Princess | p. 21 |
| Hollywood Baby Beauty | p. 43 |
| Unwelcome Triangle | p. 70 |
| Pushing the Envelope | p. 92 |
| Fame and Its Perils | p. 121 |
| Second Chance | p. 146 |
| Affair | p. 176 |
| Retu... MORE | p. 204 |
| Resurrection | p. 225 |
| Diva | p. 252 |
| Icon | p. 275 |
| Notes | p. 301 |
| Filmography | p. 335 |
| Bibliography | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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