Lupe Vélez
Acting
Born July 18, 1908 · San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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 A…
Known For · 40 titles
That's Entertainment! III
Gypsy Melody
Naná
The Casting Couch
The Big Parade of Comedy
Hot Pepper
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Resurrection
The Half-Naked Truth
The Squaw Man
Hell Harbor
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Redhead from Manhattan
Hollywood Party
Death In Hollywood
Stand and Deliver
Strictly Dynamite
The Gaucho
Death Scenes
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Kongo
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
The Girl from Mexico
Where East Is East
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
East is West
Palooka
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
The Storm
Honolulu Lu
The Cuban Love Song
Laughing Boy
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Sailors, Beware!
The Men in Her Life
The Broken Wing
Playmates
Ladies' Day
Mr. Broadway
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event