WWI Dolores del Rio Motorcycle and Sidecar Print - Hollywood Silent Era - Pre Code

Treasures from from the Motorcycle Collection at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Dolores Del Rio was a beloved Mexican American actress who had a remarkable career in Hollywood and in Mexico where she remains, to this day, the embodiment of beautiful, voluptuous and earthy Mexican womanhood in the minds and hearts of millions.

In Raoul Walsh's 1926 film What Price Glory, Dolores del Río starred as Charmaine de la Cognac alongside the rugged guy team of Edmund Lowe as 1st Sergeant Quirt and Victor McLaglen as Captain Flag. This great original film still shows us the very beautiful Ms. del Rio happily bouncing along in the sidecar with Edmund Lowe astride the moto.

A little research brought us this info from the web...

Part of its fame revolves around the fact that the characters can be seen speaking profanities which are not reflected in the intertitles, but which can be deciphered by lipreaders. The studio was reportedly inundated by calls and letters from enraged Americans, including deaf and hearing impaired people, to whom the vivid profanity between Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg was extremely offensive.

AUTHOR'S NOTE... Back during punk rock, I was living in New York and roaring around town every night on a vintage BMW with a handsome Czech sidecar that matched beautifully. We'd hit the streets around 10 or 11 PM and no matter which way I was going, I always headed south on 7th Avenue first. The reason for this was simple, screaming pleasure because, as any of you know who have ever manhandled a big bike and sidecar rig, maneuvering it with grace can be a real pain. It WANTS to fight you. Going south on 7th meant I could open up the throttle full tilt when I hit Greenwich Avenue, a 45 degree turn to the left, so long as I got damn near completely off the bike and hung my body off the left side out into space to balance the damn thing, pulling the bars with my left hand and pushing with my right while twisting that crazy throttle wide open.

Woooooooooooooooooo Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

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