Lupe Vélez
Age: 36 | From: San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Person Details
Birthday: 1908-07-18 07:41:32
Death: 1944-12-13 07:41:32
Aliases: María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez
Gender: Female
Place of birth: San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 24
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
That's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)
Kongo
(1932) Tula
The Storm
(1930) Manette Fachard
The Gaucho
(1927) The Mountain Girl
Hollywood Without Make-Up
(1963) Self (archive footage)
Wolf Song
(1929) Lola Salazar
The Cuban Love Song
(1931) Nenita
The men in my life
(1932) Julia ClarkActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | (archive footage) | |
| 1963 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1944 | Naná | |
| 1943 | Carmelita Lindsay | |
| Rita Manners / Elaine Manners | ||
| Pepita Zorita | ||
| 1942 | Carmelita Lindsay | |
| Carmelita Lindsay | ||
| Carmelita Lindsay | ||
| 1941 | Carmen del Toro | |
| Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu Lu | ||
| Carmelita Lindsay | ||
| Self | ||
| Madame La Zonga | ||
| 1940 | Carmelita Lindsay | |
| Carmelita Lindsay | ||
| 1939 | Carmelita Fuentes | |
| 1938 | Carla de Huelva | |
| Lupe | ||
| 1937 | Juanita - the Maid | |
| 1936 | Mila | |
| 1935 | Carlotta | |
| 1934 | Lupe Vélez | |
| Vera | ||
| Slim Girl | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nina Madero | ||
| 1933 | Lupe Vélez | |
| Pepper | ||
| 1932 | Teresita | |
| Tula | ||
| Lolita | ||
| Julia Clark | ||
| 1931 | Nenita | |
| Naturich | ||
| Katyusha Maslova | ||
| Katyusha Maslova | ||
| 1930 | Ming Toy | |
| Ming Toy | ||
| Manette Fachard | ||
| Anita Morgan | ||
| 1929 | Rose | |
| Toyo Haynes | ||
| Lola Salazar | ||
| Nanon del Rayon | ||
| 1928 | Self (1929) | |
| Jania - a Peasant Girl | ||
| 1927 | The Mountain Girl | |
| Baroness Behr (uncredited) | ||
| The Dean's Daughter | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
