Lupe Vélez
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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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9283 |
| Birthday | 1908-07-18 |
| Place of Birth | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico |
| Also Known As | María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, Лупе Велес, |
1934
Palooka
3/9
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Palooka
1932
Kongo
6.4/23
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day...
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Kongo
1932
The Half-Naked Truth
4.9/12
A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (...
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The Half-Naked Truth
1931
The Cuban Love Song
4.3/7
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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The Cuban Love Song
1940
Mexican Spitfire
4.6/6
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniv...
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Mexican Spitfire
1929
Where East Is East
5.857/14
A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).
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Where East Is East
1930
East Is West
4/2
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold t...
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East Is West
1928
Stand and Deliver
5.8/4
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no...
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Stand and Deliver
1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
0/0
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken...
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1930
Hell Harbor
6/10
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy...
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Hell Harbor
1931
The Squaw Man
5/11
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry...
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The Squaw Man
1934
Strictly Dynamite
5.3/3
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Strictly Dynamite
1934
Hollywood Party
5.8/12
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...
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Hollywood Party
1934
Laughing Boy
3.2/6
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
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Laughing Boy
1941
Playmates
5.2/5
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka...
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Playmates
1942
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
3/4
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy...
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1943
Ladies' Day
4.3/3
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit...
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Ladies' Day
1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
4.1/8
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1933
Hot Pepper
4.2/5
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin...
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Hot Pepper
1939
The Girl from Mexico
4.2/6
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, w...
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The Girl from Mexico
1929
Wolf Song
4.4/7
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he mee...
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Wolf Song
1942
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
4.4/5
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in or...
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
4.6/5
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but en...
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
1942
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
5.2/6
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it pa...
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1937
High Flyers
7/3
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamond...
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High Flyers
1927
The Gaucho
6.1/9
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, a...
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The Gaucho
1938
La zandunga
5.2/6
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decide...
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La zandunga
1929
Tiger Rose
0/0
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Tiger Rose
1929
Lady of the Pavements
4.6/7
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the...
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Lady of the Pavements
1927
Sailors, Beware!
6.7/22
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
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Sailors, Beware!
1943
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
5.7/3
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
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Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1941
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
5.2/5
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
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Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941
Honolulu Lu
4.2/2
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Honolulu Lu
1930
The Storm
5/1
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becom...
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The Storm
1943
Redhead from Manhattan
4.7/3
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of...
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Redhead from Manhattan
1932
The Broken Wing
5/3
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lol...
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The Broken Wing
1936
Gypsy Melody
6/1
Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic millin...
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Gypsy Melody
1994
That's Entertainment! III
7/37
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1931
Resurrection
6/1
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a cri...
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Resurrection
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
6/2
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1935
The Morals of Marcus
0/0
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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The Morals of Marcus
1938
Stardust
4/3
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter...
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Stardust
1930
East is West
0/0
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East is West
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.6/5
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1933
Mr. Broadway
0/0
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
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Mr. Broadway
1932
The Men in Her Life
0/0
Alternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
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The Men in Her Life
1944
Naná
3/4
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
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Naná
1927
What Women Did for Me
0/0
A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at a ladies’ seminary.
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What Women Did for Me
1931
Resurrection
6/2
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her...
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Resurrection
2002
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
6.2/5
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
1989
Death Scenes
4.6/8
Vintage Hollywood themed shockumentary.
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Death Scenes
1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
0/0
Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
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Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
0/0
A short review hosted by Cliff Edward. Clarence Muse sings a song about the Congo, we see various Hollywood stars at a horse race in Mexico, and then...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
1995
The Casting Couch
9/2
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes...
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The Casting Couch
1990
Death In Hollywood
6.75/4
HOLLYWOOD. Tinseltown. Land of the stars. A city where an actor can reach the greatest heights overnight - and descend just as rapidly. What goes up m...
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