Biographies: Lupe Velez - Actor

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A Mexican actress and dancer, born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Velez de Villalobos. She married actor and bodybuilder Johnny Weissmuller (1933-1939), and their marriage ended in divorce. Lupe Velez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for her cinematic work. Among her most important works are Honolulu Lu (1941), Mexican Spitfire (1940), The Girl from Mexico (1939), and Lady of the Pavements (1929). She worked during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Velez began her artistic career as a performer and dancer in vaudeville in the early twenties, then moved to the United States, and appeared in short and silent films. In the sound era, she started playing leading roles until her death, becoming one of the first successful actresses from Latin America in Hollywood, and in the 1940s, her popularity reached its peak, but drugs and alcohol destroyed her life by the age of 34. She died at the age of 36 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, on December 13, 1944, committing suicide by an overdose of barbiturate drugs, and she was pregnant out of wedlock.

• 2 May 2023
• Dalia Saad