Personal Info
María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez
Лупе Велес
Lupe Vélez
Acting
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…
Filmography
Movies
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
The Casting Couch
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Death Scenes
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Naná
as Naná
Redhead from Manhattan
as Rita Manners / Elaine Manners
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
as Carmelita Lindsay