Lupe Vélez
Acting
Born 1908-07-18
Died 1944-12-13
San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944), was a Mexican and American stage and film actress, comedian, dancer and vedette.
Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short film in 1927. By the end of the decade, in the last years of American silent films, she had progressed to leading roles in numerous movies like El Gaucho (1927), Lady of the Pavements (1928) and Wolf Song (1929), among others. She was one of the first successful Latin American actresses in the United States. During the 1930s, her well-known explosive screen persona was exploited in a series of successful films like Hot Pepper (1933), Strictly Dynamite (1934) and Hollywood Party (1934). In the 1940s, Vélez's popularity peaked after appearing in the Mexican Spitfire films, a series created to capitalize on Vélez's well-documented fiery personality.
Nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media, Vélez's personal life was as colorful as her screen persona. She had several highly publicized romances and a stormy marriage. In December 1944, Vélez died of an intentional overdose of Seconal. Her death, and the circumstances surrounding it, have been the subject of speculation and controversy.
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Filmography
Acting
51 credits
That's Entertainment! III
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The Big Parade of Comedy
Hell Harbor
Resurrection
Naná
Honolulu Lu
Hollywood Party
Hot Pepper
Gypsy Melody
High Flyers
The Gaucho
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
The Squaw Man
The Half-Naked Truth
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Laughing Boy
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Playmates
Redhead from Manhattan
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
The Girl from Mexico
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Tiger Rose
Wolf Song
The Broken Wing
Lady of the Pavements
Where East Is East
Mr. Broadway
East is West
What Women Did for Me
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Sailors, Beware!
The Men in Her Life
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Stand and Deliver
Ladies' Day
Palooka
Strictly Dynamite
East Is West
Mexican Spitfire
The Storm
Resurrection
Death Scenes
The Cuban Love Song
Stardust
Kongo
La zandunga
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
The Morals of Marcus
Other credits
4 credits
Death In Hollywood
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
The Casting Couch
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