1908-07-18 ( 116 years old ) in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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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.
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Movies
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Naná
1944-06-02
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943-07-14
Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Ladies' Day
1943-04-09
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942-09-17
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
1942-06-26
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942-03-13
Playmates
1941-12-26
Honolulu Lu
1941-12-11
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941-11-28
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941-01-17
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
Mexican Spitfire
1940-01-12
The Girl from Mexico
1939-06-01
Stardust
1938-03-25
La zandunga
1938-03-18
High Flyers
1937-11-07
Gypsy Melody
1936-07-27
The Morals of Marcus
1935-02-11
Hollywood Party
1934-05-24
Strictly Dynamite
1934-05-11
Laughing Boy
1934-04-13
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934-03-02
Palooka
1934-01-26
Mr. Broadway
1933-09-12
Hot Pepper
1933-01-15
The Half-Naked Truth
1932-12-16
Kongo
1932-10-01
The Broken Wing
1932-03-25
The men in my life
1932-02-13
The Cuban Love Song
1931-11-18
The Squaw Man
1931-07-21
Resurrection
1931-03-06
Resurrection
1931-01-27
East is West
1930-11-30
East Is West
1930-10-23
The Storm
1930-08-17
Hell Harbor
1930-03-14
Tiger Rose
1929-12-21
Where East Is East
1929-05-04
Wolf Song
1929-03-29
Lady of the Pavements
1929-01-22
Stand and Deliver
1928-02-18
The Gaucho
1927-11-21
Sailors, Beware!
1927-09-25
What Women Did for Me
1927-08-14
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