Lupe Velez
Lupe Velez is born Maria Guadalupe de Villalobos July 18, 1908, in the tiny Mexican town of San Luis de Potosi. That very day, the little village is devasted by a hurricane.1
Synopsis: Lupe Velez is “The Mexican Spitfire” in everything but name in the frantic baseball farce Ladies Day. Eddie Albert plays Wacky Waters, star pitcher of the Sox, a league-leading contender for the World Series.2
Together with Dolores del Rio, Ramon Novarro, Lupe Velez and Jos? Mojica as among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood. V?z career began in Mexico City, where she lived with her mother and sisters.3
Although ostensibly a biography of the actress, Conner’s ( Golf ) book seems more like a disjointed collection of quotes from publications on early Hollywood. The brief facts about Lupe Velez’s short life (1908-1944) sink under the weight of mainly familiar items not only on her affairs but on many other notorious couplings in the film colony: Gable and Lombard, John Gilbert and Garbo, Clara Bow and everybody.4
A collection of six musical comedy shorts from the popular Tiffany Pictures series of the late ’20s and early ’30s. Performing in the studios of “radio station STAR” are such screen greats as Buster Keaton, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in solo turns, Lupe Velez, Ken Maynard, Marjorie Kane, Weber and Fields and many more.5