Word: velez
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...current "March of Time," also appearing on the bill, gives a better representation of Mexico than does Lupe Velez in the second feature, "Mexican Spitfire," a quickie that took too long...
After signing papers that would extradite from Indiana Nancy Miller, Gypsy fortuneteller who allegedly swindled her of $2,500, volcanic Lupe Velez, Mexican cinemactress, erupted in Hollywood: "I'm really going to fix her up. Number one-I punch her in the nose. Number two-I kick her in the teeth. Number three-I pull her hair...
Cinemactress Lupe Velez, doing a vaudeville turn in Manhattan, wowed backstagers with an Adolf Hitler takeoff. "That Heetler ees my best take-off," she conceded modestly. "For a few friends I take off that Heetler, yes, but for the public, no! An artist has no business mixing up with politeecs...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...
Caught in the old confidence game was superstitious Cinemactress Lupe Velez. She let a gypsy woman persuade her to tie two $1,000 bills and $500 in assorted currency in a piece of red silk to be prayed over as protection against her enemies, got the silk back wrapped around blank paper...