Linda B Hall Dolores Performing Arts Books sku-20749271

Linda B Hall's Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade is a hardcover in Performing Arts Books. It examines how del Río's career in Hollywood, Mexico and internationally intersected with race, ethnicity, gender, beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925 after their well-to-do families suffered during the economic downturn following the Mexican Revolution.

In Hollywood, she was celebrated for her beauty. She insisted on her ethnicity, but the film industry and its fans coded her as white, and she spent more than a decade playing romantic leads opposite white actors. She returned to Mexico in the early 1940s and became a diva of its Golden Age of cinema.

The book also describes her struggle to gain control of her professional and personal life despite men in both countries who sought to dominate her. SKU: sku-20749271.