--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Hollywood Star Dolores del Río description: The Google Doodle is today celebrating Mexican Hollywood star Dolores del Río with a colourful illustration of her surrounded by flowers. canonical: https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/ author: Rachel Lewis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-03T12:34:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:30.030Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Dolores del Río og:description: She was the first Latin American crossover actress og:url: https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd179b3b47e2b0a0/6988d84322fb85f25fe223d1/170803_google-doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1104&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1104 og:image:height: 621 og:image:alt: 170803_Google Doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday- og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Dolores del Río twitter:description: She was the first Latin American crossover actress twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd179b3b47e2b0a0/6988d84322fb85f25fe223d1/170803_google-doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1104&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Celebrates Dolores del Río > Sponsored content. 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Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Aug 3, 2017 12:34 PM UTC  Celebrating Dolores del Río. Celebrating Dolores del Río. Courtesy of Google by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Aug 3, 2017 12:34 PM UTC [Thursday’s Google Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-dolores-del-rio) is celebrating Mexican Hollywood star Dolores del Río, with a colorful illustration of her surrounded by flowers. Before she died in 1983, del Ríos had an acting career spanning three decades and two continents, and is considered to be the first Latin American actress to crack [Hollywood](http://time.com/4856212/how-thelma-louise-changed-hollywood/). She was also the first woman to sit on the jury of the Cannes film festival. Google dubbed her “a trailblazer for women in Hollywood and beyond.” Her acting career began when American filmmaker [Edwin Carewe](http://www.chickasawtimes.net/Web-Exclusives/Archive/2014/December/Edwin-Carewe-was-pioneering-director-during-silent.aspx) persuaded her to move to California. “Once there,” says Google, “Del Río’s acting career would establish her as an iconic figure during the [Golden Age of Mexican cinema.](https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/the-golden-age-of-mexican-cinema-a-short-history/)” Her first major break came in 1926, with silent war-comedy film _What Price Glory?,_ but unlike many stars of the silent era, Del Rio survived the transition to talkies. “I had to work very, very hard at my English,” she later recalled. She later went on to star in _Bird of Paradise, Flying Down to Rio_ (the movie that first brought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers together) and _Journey into Fear_ throughout the early-mid 1900s. Eventually she returned to Mexico where she enjoyed continued success. Decades before Arianna Huffington picked up the topic, she was a firm believer in the power of sleep to sustain wellness. So much so that she had to deny rumors that she slept 14 hours a day. She was also, according to [IMDb](http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0003123/quotes), an enemy of dieting and beauty products, saying: “Beauty comes from the inside out. Creams are a waste of money if you don’t take care of your health” Del Rio later set up the Society for the Protection of the Artistic Treasures of Mexico, a group that was dedicated to protecting Mexico’s historical buildings and artworks. And in 1970 she helped to open a childcare center for members of the Mexican Actor’s Guild – it still bears her name today. ## ## ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Celebrates Dolores del Río","datePublished":"2017-08-03T12:34:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:30.030Z","description":"She was the first Latin American crossover actress","url":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd179b3b47e2b0a0/6988d84322fb85f25fe223d1/170803_google-doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Lewis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd179b3b47e2b0a0/6988d84322fb85f25fe223d1/170803_google-doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170803_Google Doodle-dolores-del-rios-112th-birthday-","caption":"Celebrating Dolores del Río.","creditText":"Courtesy of Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/","name":"Google Doodle Celebrates Dolores del Río"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4885464/google-doodle-dolores-del-rio/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```