Lupe Vélez
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lupe Vélez licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of...
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Hollywood Party
as Lupe VélezJimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake...
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The Broken Wing
as LolitaIn a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio...
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The Gaucho
as The Mountain GirlA girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed...
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The Half-Naked Truth
as TeresitaA carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a...
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Wolf Song
as Lola SalazarIn 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head...
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The Squaw Man
as NaturichJim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for...
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Palooka
as Nina MaderoJoe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle...
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East Is West
as Ming ToyMing Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by...
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The Storm
as Manette FachardBurr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are...
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Carmelita LindsayAn advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a...
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Strictly Dynamite
as VeraA failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Kongo
as TulaThe ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god,...
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Where East Is East
as Toyo HaynesA Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves...
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The Cuban Love Song
as NenitaA guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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Sailors, Beware!
as Baroness Behr (uncredited)A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Carmelita LindsayA pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette,...
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Resurrection
as Katyusha MaslovaKatusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself,...
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Honolulu Lu
as Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu LuWhile in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
as uncreditedShort film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations...
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The Girl from Mexico
as Carmelita FuentesCarmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis...
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Stand and Deliver
as Jania - a Peasant GirlOur heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much...
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Redhead from Manhattan
as Rita Manners / Elaine MannersLupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship,...
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Laughing Boy
as Slim GirlA young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
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Mexican Spitfire
as Carmelita LindsayNewlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage:...
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What Women Did for Me
as The Dean's DaughterA girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.
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High Flyers
as Juanita - the MaidTwo men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos...
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Playmates
as Carmen del ToroLulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio...
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Stardust
as Carla de HuelvaCarla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is...
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Carmelita LindsayDennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita....
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
as Carmelita LindsayAn advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The...
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Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
as Carmelita LindsayDennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the...
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Ladies' Day
as Pepita ZoritaA top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a...
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Naná
as NanáBased in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French...
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Lady of the Pavements
as Nanon del RayonKarl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him....
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
as Carmelita LindsayCarmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy...
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Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Madame La ZongaThe brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to...
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Hell Harbor
as Anita MorganLovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana....
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Hot Pepper
as PepperIn this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues...
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The Morals of Marcus
as CarlottaA confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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Mr. Broadway
as Lupe VélezEd Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories...
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La zandunga
as LupeIt is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the...
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Resurrection
as Katyusha MaslovaSimultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly...
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The men in my life
as Julia ClarkAlternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
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Gypsy Melody
as MilaDue to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He...
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