Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood, becoming an important actress in Mexican films later in her life. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her era and was the first Latin American movie star to have international appeal. She was considered in the Silent film era as the female version of Rudolph Valentino. With the arrival of the talkies she was considered one of the principal Art Deco symbols of beauty. In the early 1940s she began a polemic? romance with Orson Welles and that was the key reason why she decided to return to Mexico