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From the 1935 Trailer for “In Caliente” Starring Errol’s Friend, Dolores Del Rio

24 Jul

In Caliente

— Tim

 
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Tim
11 years ago

Here’s the great original trailer for “In Caliente”, predominantly filmed at and featuring the Caliente Casino & Resort – just how Errol would have seen it in the Thirties!

It was the place to be!!!

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Tim
11 years ago

Dolores Del Rio was Errol’s first prominent connection in/from Mexico, I believe. One he got to know quite well, through Lili initially I think, and one he regarded to be stunningly beautiful, like “an Aztec Princess”

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ILIKEFLYNN
11 years ago

Dolores Del Rio was considered to be one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen, having a career that spanned the silent twenties into the technicolor, cinemascope seventies on both sides of the border and stayed a natural beauty well into her sixties. (She died at the age of 77 in 1983.) Unfortunately she never made a film with Errol.–A. R.

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Tim
11 years ago
Reply to  ILIKEFLYNN

Absolutely. What an elegantly gorgeous woman. And a great, pioneering talent. … Her & Errol could have been wonderful on-screen together.

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Tim
11 years ago

Another Latin beauty and future close friend of Errol’s – the soon-to-be Rita Hayworth – is (I have read) an “ethnic extra” in this movie!

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Inga
11 years ago
Reply to  Tim

“ethnic extra”? why would they specify this???

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Tim
11 years ago
Reply to  Inga

I read this term in a book on the history of Tijuana, Inga. the author intended it to mean simply that young Rita added a Latin flavor to the movie as an extra. However, I believe the bigger truth may have been that Hollywood mogul Joseph Schenk was already provisionally (at least)grooming Rita for movie stardom. Schenk was a HUGE force in Hollywood, and he also largely owned, developed and ran things at Caliente and elsewhere in Baja. It was predominantly his playground – one that ultimately led him into a lot of trouble!

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Tim
11 years ago
Reply to  Inga

In essence, Inga, Dolores Del Rio was also regarded by movie studios and audiences as an “ethnic” in this picture, albeit a star. Same for Lupe Velez, another of Errol’s amazing amigas from Mexico. Lupe, though also stunningly beautiful, was seen as more of a dramatically exotic “Mexican spitfire” than the wondrously elegant Dolores- as Errol himself famously attested to in Wicked Ways! In real life, Lupe was “Tarzan’s wife” – but no Jane was she!!

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Inga
11 years ago
Reply to  Tim

It’s good that times have changed in that respect…

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