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Lupe Vélez
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Mexican actress, dancer and vedette (1908—1944)
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Lupe Vélez, born María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, was a film, stage, and television actor. She was a citizen of Mexico and was born in San Luis Potosí. Her professional career began in 1927 and concluded in 1944. She spoke and wrote in Spanish and English. Her native language was Spanish.
She died in Beverly Hills on December 13, 1944, from a barbiturate overdose. She is buried in the Panteón de Dolores. Vélez was married to Johnny Weissmuller. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One of her notable works is the film Joe Palooka, released in 1934.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Joe Palooka (1934)
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Film & TV
Acting · San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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…
Known for
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema2002
- The Casting Couch1995
- That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
- Death In Hollywood1990
- Death Scenes — Self (archive footage)1989
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)1988
- The Big Parade of Comedy — Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)1964
- Naná — Naná1944
- Ladies' Day — Pepita Zorita1943
- Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event — Carmelita Lindsay1943
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 208
- Total plays
- 343
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence
· 2012 · cited 4,125x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,668x
- Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19
· 2020 · cited 2,283x
- Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer
· 2015 · cited 2,058x
- Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19
· 2020 · cited 1,857x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Guadalupe
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- San Luis Potosí
- Place of death
- Beverly Hills
- Spouse
- Johnny Weissmuller
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Image
- Lupe Vélez in 1941.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lupe Vélez
- date of birth
- 1906-07-18
- date of death
- 1944-12-13
- Commons gallery
- Lupe Vélez
- name in native language
- Lupe Vélez
- start of work period
- 1927-00-00
- pseudonym
- Lupe Vélez
- birth name
- María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez
- place of burial
- Panteón de Dolores
- cause of death
- barbiturate overdose
- end of work period
- 1944-00-00
- manner of death
- Suicide
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