Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez, María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos eigtl, ( born July 18, 1908 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, † December 13, 1944 in Beverly Hills, California ) was a Mexican actress.

Career

Lupe Vélez began her career as a dancer and soon managed to break into the U.S.. In 1926 she discovered the producer Hal Roach and gave her some extras roles in his comedies before her by her appearance as a fiery Señorita in The Gaucho alongside Douglas Fairbanks in 1927 managed the breakthrough. The following year she played the lead role in David Wark Griffith adaptation of Ladies of the pavement and began an affair with Gary Cooper, her partner of Wolf song, which caused many headlines. In 1928 she was voted one of WAMPAS Baby Stars.

The transition from silent films to talkies, she managed, unlike many other foreign actors relatively well, and she took over the female roles in The Squaw Man by Cecil B. DeMille. Eventually, however, her strong accent was an obstacle, and her career waned until the mid- 1930s. Velez made ​​during the time mainly by her passionate marriage to Johnny Weissmuller headlines. In 1938, she created a kind of comeback in a series of cheap produced comedies that made produce the studio RKO under the title Mexican Spitfire. On 13 December 1944 committed Lupe Vélez at the age of 36 years suicide.