Lupe Vélez

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-07-18 (36 years old)

Deathday

1944-12-13

Place of Birth

San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Lupe Vélez

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...

Acting

1934

Palooka

as Nina Madero

1932

Kongo

as Tula

1932

1931

1940

Mexican Spitfire

as Carmelita Lindsay

1930

East Is West

as Ming Toy

1929

Where East Is East

as Toyo Haynes

1928

Stand and Deliver

as Jania - a Peasant Girl

1930

Hell Harbor

as Anita Morgan

1931

The Squaw Man

as Naturich

1934

Hollywood Party

as Lupe Vélez

1934

Laughing Boy

as Slim Girl

1941

Playmates

as Carmen del Toro

1942

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

as Carmelita Lindsay

1943

Ladies' Day

as Pepita Zorita

1941

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

as Carmelita Lindsay

1933

Hot Pepper

as Pepper

1939

The Girl from Mexico

as Carmelita Fuentes

1929

Wolf Song

as Lola Salazar

1942

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

as Carmelita Lindsay

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

as Carmelita Lindsay

1942

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

as Carmelita Lindsay

1937

High Flyers

as Juanita - the Maid

1927

The Gaucho

as The Mountain Girl

1938

1929

Tiger Rose

as Rose

1929

Lady of the Pavements

as Nanon del Rayon

1927

Sailors, Beware!

as Baroness Behr (uncredited)

1943

1941

1941

Honolulu Lu

as Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu Lu

1930

The Storm

as Manette Fachard

1943

Redhead from Manhattan

as Rita Manners / Elaine Manners

1932

1936

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1931

Resurrection

as Katyusha Maslova

1935

1938

Stardust

as Carla de Huelva

1930

East is West

as Ming Toy

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

1927

What Women Did for Me

as The Dean's Daughter

1931

Resurrection

as Katyusha Maslova

1932

The Men in Her Life

as Julia Clark

1933

Mr. Broadway

as Lupe Vélez

1944

Naná

as Naná

1990

Death In Hollywood

as (archive footage)

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