Lupe Vélez
Nacimiento : 1908-07-18, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Muerte : 1944-12-13
Historia
María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, conocida artísticamente como Lupe Vélez (San Luis Potosí, 18 de julio de 1908 — Beverly Hills, 13 de diciembre de 1944), fue una actriz cinematográfica, bailarina y vedette mexicana.
Vélez comenzó su carrera en México como bailarina y vedette del Teatro de revista, antes de mudarse a Estados Unidos donde en 1927 logra incursionar en la industria del cine de Hollywood. A finales de la década de los 1920's, Lupe era considerada una de las grandes estrellas de la Meca del Cine. Con la llegada del cine sonoro Vélez destacó por su participación en numerosas comedias, bajo la dirección de figuras como D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Fleming y William Wyler, entre otros. Su caracterización de la mujer latina temperamental, explosiva, revoltosa e irreverente, aderezado con un acento latino muy remarcado, le dio una gran popularidad entre el público en los Estados Unidos. También realizó dos películas en México. Entre sus filmes principales se encuentran The Wolf Song (1929), Palooka (1932), Laughing Boy (1934), Hollywood Party (1934), La Zandunga (1938) y una serie de películas creadas especialmente para ella a principios de los años 1940's tituladas Mexican Spitfire. En la época, fue conocida por sobrenombres como "Dinamita Mexicana", "La Chinampina" y "Chica Chile Picante".
Su vida personal fue turbulenta y estuvo marcada por una serie de polémicos romances. Su trágico suicidio en el año 1944, y las circunstancias en que sucedió, se convirtieron en un escándalo mediático y dieron lugar a muchas especulaciones contribuyendo a tejer en torno a su imagen una serie de leyendas urbanas.
Junto con Dolores del Río, Katy Jurado y Salma Hayek, Lupe Vélez completa al grupo de actrices mexicanas que han conseguido triunfar en Hollywood.
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An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.
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El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Naná
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Carmelita Lindsay
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
Rita Manners / Elaine Manners
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Pepita Zorita
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
Carmelita Lindsay
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Carmelita Lindsay
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
Carmelita Lindsay
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Carmen del Toro
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu Lu
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Carmelita Lindsay
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Madame La Zonga
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Carmelita Lindsay
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
Carmelita Lindsay
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Carmelita Fuentes
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Carla de Huelva
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
Lupe
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
Juanita - the Maid
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Mila
Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved.
Carlotta
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
Lupe Vélez
Schnarzan (Jimmy Durante), el héroe del cine de aventuras, está siendo cuestionado por sus falsas y ridículas peleas con animales. Cuando se entera de que el Barón de Munchausen y sus leones amaestrados andan de gira por Hollywood, el actor y el productor organizan una gran fiesta a la que invitan al barón para ver si logran convencerlo de que sus leones aparezcan en su siguiente película.
Vera
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Slim Girl
Muchacho Sonriente ha sido criado a la manera tradicional de los navajos y no tiene contacto con la civilización; en agudo contraste Muchacha Esbelta, educada en la ciudad, no es bien vista por los navajos por el tipo de vida que lleva, impropia de una navajo... de ahí que traten de impedir que ambos se casen.
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
Nina Madero
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Lupe Vélez
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Pepper
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Teresita
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.
Tula
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
Lolita
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...
Julia Clark
Alternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
Nenita
Un marine estadounidense atormentado por la culpa regresa a Cuba para localizar a su hijo ilegítimo.
Naturich
Lord Henry Kerhill, el dueño de una lujosa mansión inglesa, descubre a su esposa Lady Diana, y a su primo Jim Wynn haciéndose confidencias en el jardín, junto al pozo de los deseos.
Katyusha Maslova
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.
Katyusha Maslova
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Ming Toy
Ming Toy
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Manette Fachard
Burr y Dave, dos íntimos amigos que se hallan en una cabaña de las montañas, deben afrontar una terrible tempestad. Pero no están solos, los acompaña Manette, una bella mujer por la que acaban enfrentándose.
Anita Morgan
En una remota isla del Caribe, poblada por los descendientes de la tripulación del pirata Henry Morgan, el tátara-tátaranieto de éste quiere obligar a su hija Anita a que se case con el despreciable prestamista Joseph Horngold para poder disponer de mucho oro. El marinero americano Bob Wade acude en su rescate y su presencia hace estallar una revuelta en la isla.
Rose
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Toyo Haynes
"El Tigre" Hayes es un trampero que vive en China con su hija. Ella conoce a Bobby, el hijo de un viejo amigo. En uno de sus viajes Bobby conoce a una enigmática mujer de la que se enamora perdidamente sin saber que es la madre de Toyo.
Lola Salazar
Sam es un vaquero aventurero que se ha unido a otros hombres para iniciar una cacería por las montañas. Cuando conoce a la mexicana Lola, se enamora de ella y ambos se casan. Pero poco después, Sam siente notalgia del pasado y tendrá que decidir entre la llamada de la aventura o su querida esposa.
Nanon del Rayon
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
Self (1929)
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Jania - a Peasant Girl
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.
The Mountain Girl
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
Baroness Behr (uncredited)
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
The Dean's Daughter
A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.
