Lupe Vélez
Carmelita Fuentes
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The Girl from Mexico is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Lionel Houser and Joseph Fields. The film stars Lupe Vélez, who plays a hot-headed, fast-talking Mexican singer taken to New York for a radio gig, who decides she wants the ad agency man for herself.
The Girl from Mexico: Directed by Leslie Goodwins. With Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol, Linda Hayes. An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée.
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- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Leslie Goodwins
- 1939-06-02
Lupe Velez, as Carmelita from Mexico, argues with the portrait of the snooty fianceè of the New York ad man who recruited her, for whom she’s now fallen, then meets Leon Errol as his Uncle Matt, who became a regular in her ensuing Mexican Spitfire series, in The Girl From Mexico, 1939.
- Leslie Goodwins, Sam Ruman
- Lupe Velez
The Girl From Mexico. Advertising executive Dennis Lindsay (Donald Woods) scores a coup by signing Mexican firebrand Carmelita Fuentes (Lupe Velez) to a radio contract. Once in New York...
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- Lupe Velez
- Leslie Goodwins
- Comedy
The Girl from Mexico (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In "The Girl From Mexico," Velez is Carmelita Fuentes, a talented singer from a small Mexican town who Dennis Lindsay (Donald Woods), a scout from a New York talent agency, discovers and escorts her to the states for an audition.
1939. Running time. 71 min. Country. United States. Director. Leslie Goodwins. Screenwriter. Lionel Houser, Joseph Fields. Cast. Music. Albert Hay Malotte, Roy Webb, Harry Tierney. Cinematography. Jack MacKenzie (B&W) Producer. RKO Radio Pictures. Genre. Comedy. Musical. Romance. Synopsis.
