Linda Hall
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dolores del Ro̕'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 the...