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Dolores Del Rio Dancing in the Gym Original 1920s Physical Culture Photograph
Dolores Del Rio Dancing in the Gym Original 1920s Physical Culture Photograph
Dolores Del Rio Dancing in the Gym Original 1920s Physical Culture Photograph

Dolores Del Rio Dancing in the Gym Original 1920s Physical Culture Photograph

$ 3.25

Availability: 71 in stock
  • Subject: Dolores Del Rio
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Modified Item: No
  • Photographer: Gaston Longet
  • Year: Pre-1940
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Industry: Movies
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Condition: This photograph is in fine condition with scattered corner and edge wear, soiling in the top left corner, and general storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Object Type: Photograph
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Restocking Fee: No

    Description

    ITEM: This is a 1920s vintage and original RKO Radio Pictures photograph of actress Dolores del Rio casually dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, and high heel shoes, as she is captured by studio photographer Gaston Longet in the gym during a workout session. The screen star prefers dancing as a method to keeping herself trim and slim. The press snipe on verso reads:
    DOLORES DEL, RKO-Radio Pictures star, has a perfect figure--and she keeps it by going through a slow Spanish dance exercise of her own devising, keeping the muscles taut through every phase of the movements. Here is one phase.
    A Mexican actress, Dolores del Rio was the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood, with an outstanding career in American films in the 1920s and 1930s. She was also considered one of the more important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Del Rio is also remembered as one of the most beautiful faces of the cinema in her time. Her long and varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage and radio.
    Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock. Studio paper caption and photographer's ink stamp on verso.
    Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
    More about Dolores Del Rio:
    Easily one of the most beautiful women of her era and one of the most gorgeous people ever to make it to the ranks of film stardom. Del Rio's career in the 1920s and 30s unfortunately suffered from too many exotic, two-dimensional roles designed with Hollywood's cliched ideas of ethnic minorities in mind. Her best-remembered film from this period is "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), which partnered Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for the first time. One of her more interesting parts was her last American lead, in "Journey Into Fear" (1942), set up by and co-starring Del Rio's then paramour, Orson Welles. It took a return to the stage and screen in her native Mexico (where she won that country's equivalent of a Best Actress Oscar four times and was lauded as "the first lady of Mexican theater") and later Hollywood character parts (e.g., in John Ford's "The Fugitive" 1947 and his "Cheyenne Autumn" 1964) for her talent to be fully displayed.
    Biography From: TCM | Turner Classic Movies