Lupe Vélez — Actor (14)
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Stardust (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stardust
director: Melville W. Brown actor: Ben Lyon / Lupe Vélez …
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.
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Hot Pepper (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hot Pepper
director: John G. Blystone actor: Edmund Lowe / Lupe Vélez …
other title: 鬥氣活寶貝 / Pimienta y más pimienta …
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.
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The Girl from Mexico (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Girl from Mexico
director: Leslie Goodwins actor: Lupe Vélez / Donald Woods …
other title: La chica de Méjico
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.
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Lady of the Pavements (1929) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Lady von der Straße
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lupe Vélez / William Boyd …
other title: Die Lady von der Straße / 鳳閣情鴛 …
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 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.
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Palooka (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Palooka
director: Benjamin Stoloff actor: Jimmy Durante / Lupe Vélez …
other title: 頓間パルーカ
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.
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Kongo (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kongo
director: William J. Cowen actor: 沃尔特·休斯顿 / Lupe Vélez …
other title: 非洲孔果园 / Congo …
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.