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Mexican Spitfire is a 1940 American comedy film starring Lupe Vélez. She 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.
Mexican Spitfire refers to a series of eight comedy films released by RKO Pictures between 1940 and 1943 starring Lupe Vélez and Leon Errol. The movies featured the character of Carmelita Fuentes (Lupe Vélez), a sympathetic but temperamental Mexican singer who leaves her career and native country to meet and marry Dennis Lindsay ( Donald ...
CharacterTitle(the Girl From Mexico)Title(mexican Spitfire)Title(mexican Spitfire Out West)Carmelita Lindsay, née FuentesLupe VélezLupe VélezLupe VélezUncle Matthew LindsayLeon ErrolLeon ErrolLeon ErrolDennis LindsayDonald WoodsDonald WoodsDonald WoodsElizabeth PriceLinda HayesLinda HayesLinda HayesLupe Velez stars as Carmelita Lindsay, a fiery Latin wife who faces various challenges in her marriage. Leon Errol plays her uncle and comic foil in this RKO comedy series.
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- Leslie Goodwins
- 1940-01-12
Mexican Spitfire - (Original Trailer) A businessman's aunt enlists his ex-wife to break up his marriage to a temperamental Latina in Mexican Spitfire (1940).
- Leslie Goodwins, James Anderson
- Lupe Velez
In the 1940s, Vélez's popularity peaked while appearing as Carmelita Fuentes in eight Mexican Spitfire films, a series created to capitalize on her fiery personality. Nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media, Vélez's personal life was as colorful as her screen persona.
Beautiful and vivacious Lupe Velez plays irrepressible Carmelita, a scatterbrain whose attempts to add spice to her life and luster to her marriage always result in farcical shenanigans galore.
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A newlywed couple faces hilarious complications when they return to New York from their Mexican honeymoon. Leon Errol plays a dual role as a British aristocrat and a wacky uncle, while Lupe Velez is a bundle of energy as the spitfire bride.
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