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    Dolores del Rio

    María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete,[13][14] was born in Victoria de Durango, Mexico on 3 August 1904,[15]
    daughter of Jesús Leonardo Asúnsolo Jacques, son of wealthy farmers and director of the Bank of Durango, and Antonia
    López Negrete, who belonged to one of the richest families in the country, whose lineage went back to Spain and the
    viceregal nobility.

    Del Río's family lost all its assets during the Mexican Revolution that spanned from 1910 to 1920. Durango aristocratic
    families were threatened by the insurrection that Pancho Villa was leading in the region. The Asúnsolo family decided to
    escape, her father to the United States, and she and her mother to Mexico City on a train, disguised as peasants.[23] In
    1912, the Asúnsolo family reunited in Mexico City and lived under the protection of then-president Francisco I. Madero, who
    was a cousin of Mrs. Asúnsolo.
    Del Río attended the Collège Français de Saint-Joseph,[24] a college run by French nuns and located in Mexico City.[25]
    She also developed a great taste for dance, that awakened in her when her mother took her to one of the performances of
    the Russian dancer Ana Pavlova, where she was fascinated by seeing her dance and decided to become a dancer
    herself.[26] She confirmed her decision later when she witnessed the performances of Antonia Mercé "La Argentina" in
    Mexico City. She then persuaded her mother to allow her to take dance lessons with the respected teacher Felipita López.
    However, she suffered from great insecurity and felt like an ‘ugly duckling’. Her mother commissioned the renowned painter
    Alfredo Ramos Martínez (famous painter of the Mexican aristocracy) to paint a portrait of her daughter. The portrait helped
    her overcome her insecurities.[27][28] In 1921, aged 17, del Río was invited by a group of Mexican women to dance in a
    party to benefit a local hospital. At this party, she met Jaime Martínez del Río y Viñent, son of a wealthy family. Jaime had
    been educated in the United Kingdom and had spent some time in Europe. After a two-month courtship, the couple wed on
    11 April 1921.[29] It was from him that she inherited her artistic surname.[29]
    Her honeymoon with Jaime lasted two years and they carried it out traveling through Europe, where in a stop at Spain, Del
    Río danced for the kings of Spain (Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie), who were fascinated to see her perform a dance for
    the soldiers of the war in Morocco.The kings thanked her deeply and the queen gave her a photograph.[30] Returning to
    Mexico, Jaime decided to dedicate himself to growing cotton at his ranch called Las Cruces, in Nazas, Durango. However, a
    fall in the world cotton market in 1924, caused an economic crisis for both and had to settle in Mexico City under the
    economic protection of their respective families.[31] For her part, she had to sell her jewelry to try to recover some of the
    fortune she had lost with her husband.[32] In addition to this, Dolores arrived pregnant when they returned to the country
    and had complications that could not be overcome, which caused a miscarriage and after which the doctors recommended
    not to get pregnant again since it would be very dangerous, taking away the possibility of having children

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