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Bird of Paradise, 1932 ad. Though the American (McCrea) and his Hawaiian lover (del Rio) attempt to transcend the racist and sexual strictures that doom their relationship, Vidor, although not personally a racist, ended the film with what some interpret as an anti-miscegenation message. Selznick's story line that "climax[es] with the girl ...
Dolores del Río in Bird of Paradise (1932) In 1930, del Río met Cedric Gibbons, an art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of the most influential men in Hollywood, at a party at Hearst Castle. The couple began a romance and married on August 6, 1930. [56] Shortly after her marriage, del Río fell seriously ill with a severe kidney infection.
Dolores del Río (August 3, 1904 - April 11, 1983) was a Mexican actress of the 20th century, active in 53 feature films, 1 telemovies and 8 stage plays over 53 years from 1925 and 1978. Del Río began her career in Hollywood in 1925 and made her film debut in Joanna .
Ad of Joel McCrea and Dolores del Rio from Bird of Paradise in The Film Daily, 1932 McCrea with Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). In the 1930s, McCrea starred in the pre-code film, Bird of Paradise (1932), directed by King Vidor, co-starring with Dolores del Río.
A list of American films released in 1932. ... Bird of Paradise: King Vidor: Dolores del Río, ... Girl of the Rio: Herbert Brenon: Dolores del Río, ...
The Bird of Paradise is a melodramatic American play of 1912 set in Hawaii, the best known work of Richard Walton Tully. The play has been credited with creating an image of Hawaii as a land where native girls “dance the hula, play ukuleles, live in grass huts, and worship volcano gods”.
Bird of Paradise, directed by King Vidor, starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea; Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light), starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl – A Blonde Dream (Ein blonder Traum), directed by Paul Martin, starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Willi Forst –
Starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea, the tropical location and mixed-race love theme in Bird of Paradise included nudity and sexual eroticism. [81] During production Vidor began an affair with script assistant Elizabeth Hill that led to a series of highly productive screenplay collaborations and their marriage in 1937.