Serial and Year: 0-8065-1185 / 0-8065-1208-3 / 1990.

Pages: One paragraph.

Pictures: No pictures.

Article: Brief mention within a paragraph of one of the chapters of the book.

Author: George Hadley-Garcia.

Publisher: Citadel Press Book / Carol Publishing Group.

Country: USA.

(...) "Dallas" bowed in 1978, and made an international TV star of former film actress-turned-agent Victoria Principal. There were however recurring complaints that the series, set in Texas, had no Hispanic-American characters. (In the mid-'80s, when Nicaraguan Barbara Carrera came aboard for a season, she played a Euro-type tycoon-temptress, not a typical Centroamericana.) Another '70s TV star partly of Latin origin was Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter, who later portrayed Rita Hayworth in a TV film.

Actresses like Principal and Carter, and then Catherine Bach of "The Dukes of Hazzard," were unknown to the general public as part-Hispanic until their appearances as presenters or recipients on the nationally televised Golden Eagle Awards show devised by the pro-Hispanic Hollywood organization NOSOTROS. (...)

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