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.

Known For: Acting

Born: San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 1908-07-18

Died: 1944-12-13

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1927	What Women Did for Me	The Dean's Daughter	0
2	1927	Sailors, Beware!	Baroness Behr (uncredited)	68
3	1927	The Gaucho	The Mountain Girl	61
4	1928	Stand and Deliver	Jania - a Peasant Girl	58
5	1929	Lady of the Pavements	Nanon del Rayon	46
6	1929	Wolf Song	Lola Salazar	48
7	1929	Where East Is East	Toyo Haynes	57
8	1929	Tiger Rose	Rose	0
9	1930	Hell Harbor	Anita Morgan	60
10	1930	The Storm	Manette Fachard	50
11	1930	East Is West	Ming Toy	40
12	1930	East is West	Ming Toy	0
13	1931	Resurrection	Katyusha Maslova	60
14	1931	Resurrection	Katyusha Maslova	60
15	1931	The Squaw Man	Naturich	54
16	1931	The Cuban Love Song	Nenita	43
17	1932	The Men in Her Life	Julia Clark	0
18	1932	The Broken Wing	Lolita	50
19	1932	Kongo	Tula	64
20	1932	The Half-Naked Truth	Teresita	52
21	1933	Hot Pepper	Pepper	45
22	1933	Mr. Broadway	Lupe Vélez	0
23	1934	Palooka	Nina Madero	30
24	1934	Hollywood on Parade No. B-1		60
25	1934	Laughing Boy	Slim Girl	36
26	1934	Strictly Dynamite	Vera	53
27	1934	Hollywood Party	Lupe Vélez	58
28	1935	The Morals of Marcus	Carlotta	0
29	1936	Gypsy Melody	Mila	60
30	1937	High Flyers	Juanita - the Maid	70
31	1938	La zandunga	Lupe	52
32	1938	Stardust	Carla de Huelva	40
33	1939	The Girl from Mexico	Carmelita Fuentes	42
34	1940	Mexican Spitfire	Carmelita Lindsay	46
35	1940	Mexican Spitfire Out West	Carmelita Lindsay	46
36	1941	Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga	Madame La Zonga	50
37	1941	Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1	Self	0
38	1941	The Mexican Spitfire's Baby	Carmelita Lindsay	43
39	1941	Honolulu Lu	Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu Lu	42
40	1941	Playmates	Carmen del Toro	52
41	1942	Mexican Spitfire at Sea	Carmelita Lindsay	30
42	1942	Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost	Carmelita Lindsay	44
43	1942	Mexican Spitfire's Elephant	Carmelita Lindsay	52
44	1943	Ladies' Day	Pepita Zorita	43
45	1943	Redhead from Manhattan	Rita Manners / Elaine Manners	47
46	1943	Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event	Carmelita Lindsay	57
47	1944	Naná	Naná	50
48	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)	63
49	1989	Death Scenes		45
50	1990	Death In Hollywood	(archive footage)	63
51	1994	That's Entertainment! III	(archive footage)	70
52	2002	The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema		62

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1927