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Mexican Spitfire Sees A Ghost (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Everything's Gonna Be Honky TonkyProbably just to get star Lupe Velez into the cute maid outfit, she and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt masquerade as servants to nervous Percy (Donald MacBride) and sister (Minna Gombel), to help her husband Denny (Buddy Rogers) save a business deal, in Mexican ...
Vélez, Lupe (1908–1944)Known as "The Mexican Spitfire" and the "Hot Baby of Hollywood," actress Lupe Vélez came to represent an exotic and generic image of Latin American femininity in Hollywood cinema. Born Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez on 18 July 1908, in the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, her first feature-length film was The ...
In a country that claimed modernity and praised urban life, Lupe Vélez appeared as the perfect icon of a modern girl. Her short hair, make-up, high heels, a dressed targeted for masses, her expression of trustworthiness, the desire to present herself exercising feminine power as the new image of the modern and post-revolutionary Mexico.
Dec 20, 2007 · A tabloid sensation, Velez killed herself in 1944 with an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving two poignant notes in which she wrote of unrequited love and expectant motherhood. — Los Angeles Times staff writer and Josh Getlin Dec. 15, 1944 and December 20, 2007. Related; When Mexico was a star; The book: "Lupe Velez and Her Lovers"
Lupe Vélez, nome artístico de María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos, ( San Luis Potosí, 18 de julho de 1908 — Beverly Hills, 13 de dezembro de 1944) foi uma atriz mexicana que fez carreira nos Estados Unidos da América . Ela iniciou sua carreira como dançarina ainda no México, antes de se mudar para os Estados Unidos, onde trabalhou em ...
Jul 24, 2012 · Michelle Vogel. McFarland, Jul 24, 2012 - Performing Arts - 248 pages. Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez, the most notorious that she "died with her head in the toilet."
Jul 10, 2012 · Finally, someone sets the record straight about Lupe Velez's life and sad death. Michelle Vogel, after three years of extensive research, provides the truth. For me, one of the most fascinating parts of the book is the chapter that deals with Velez's final days and the anxiety she was under as a mother to be.
- Michelle Vogel
