Lupe Vélez
Birthday
1908/07/18
Day of death
1944/12/13 (36 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Also know as
María Guadalupe Villalobos 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 ...Read more
Acting
(1934) Palooka
as Nina Madero
(1932) Kongo
as Tula
(1932) The Half-Naked Truth
as Teresita
(1931) The Cuban Love Song
as Nenita
(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
(1941) Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self
(1930) Hell Harbor
as Anita Morgan
(1931) The Squaw Man
as Naturich
(1934) Strictly Dynamite
as Vera
(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) La zandunga
as Lupe
(1929) Tiger Rose
as Rose
(1929) Lady of the Pavements
as Nanon del Rayon
(1927) Sailors, Beware!
as Baroness Behr (uncredited)
(1943) Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
as Carmelita Lindsay
(1941) Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Madame La Zonga
(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) The Broken Wing
as Lolita
(1936) Gypsy Melody
as Mila
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1931) Resurrection
as Katyusha Maslova
(1928) Fashion News
as Self (1929)
(1934) Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
as ---
(1935) The Morals of Marcus
as Carlotta
(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 my life
as Julia Clark
(1933) Mr. Broadway
as Lupe Vélez
(1944) Naná
as Naná