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Most Recent Role: Carlotta Lopez de Guadelupe on Marcus Welby, M.D.
Alias Name(s): The Female Valentino, Lolita
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Durango, Mexico
Birthday: 8-3-1905
Birth Name: Delores Martinez Asunsolo y Lopez Negrete
Date of Death: 4-11-1983
Cause of Death: Liver failure
Dolores del Rio was the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and she made an extraordinary career in the 1920s Hollywood (specially for a latin girl on those years). She was born and raised as an aristocrat in Durango, Mexico, before the Mexican revolution. When her family lost almost everything they owned, Dolores emigrated to Mexico City, where she became a socialité. In 1921,...

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Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Legacy
Tuesday 27 January 1970 on ABC

When the patrician Senora Carlotta, mother of Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo Lopez, is told by the doctor that her life-or-death decision will also involve others, she decides immediately what course she must take. Her philosophy affects Mrs. Faris, the cynical women whose room she shares and who...

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She was criticized during the McCarthy era of the 1950s for having aided anti-Franco refugees from the Spanish Civil War. (edit)
Her friend Marlene Dietrich considered her the "most beautiful woman in Hollywood." (edit)
She reportedly slept 16 hours a day to maintain her beauty. (edit)
She was second cousin of Ramón Novarro. (edit)
Her height was 5'3˝" . (edit)

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