Vélez, Lupe

Lupe Vélez,
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Name	Vélez, Lupe Gender: F
Birthname	María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez
born on	18 July 1909 at 02:30 (= 02:30 AM )
Place	San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 22n09, 100w59
Timezone	LMT m100w59 (is local mean time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	25°05' 06°05 Asc. 14°06'

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Lupe Vélez

Biography

Mexican-American stage and screen actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and vedette, nicknamed 'The Mexican Spitfire' for her emotional and fiery temperament. She was one of the first successful Latin American actresses in the United States.

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 silent films, she had progressed to leading roles in numerous movies like The Gaucho (1927), Lady of the Pavements (1928) and Wolf Song (1929), among others.

During the 1930s, her well-known explosive screen persona was exploited in a series of successful films like Hot Pepper (1933), Strictly Dynamite (1934) and Hollywood Party (1934). In the 1940s, Vélez's popularity peaked after appearing in the Mexican Spitfire films, a series created to capitalize on Vélez's well-documented fiery personality.

Vélez's personal life was as colourful as her screen persona. She had several highly publicized romances and a tempestuous marriage to Johnny Weismuller from 1933 to 1939 as well.

On the night of 13 December 1944, she had her makeup and hair done and was dressed up to be beautiful. However, in the early hours of the next day she overdosed on 70 Seconal pills and a glass of brandy in a room filled with flowers in Beverly Hills, California. She did not die from the overdose directly. The story goes that she began to throw up, and, as she dashed to the toilet, slipped in her own vomit. She hit her head on the toilet bowl and was knocked unconscious. Falling into the toilet, she drowned. Another report states that her secretary, Beulah Kinder, found the actress' body on her bed later that morning.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Errol, Leon (born 3 July 1881). Notes: Co-star in in the "Mexican Spitfire" movies

• associate relationship with Novarro, Ramon (born 6 February 1899). Notes: Co-star in "Laughing Boy," 1934

• lover relationship with Chaplin, Charles (born 16 April 1889). Notes: Rumoured romance

• lover relationship with Cooper, Gary (born 7 May 1901). Notes: circa 1929-1930

• lover relationship with Dempsey, Jack (born 24 June 1895). Notes: Early 1940s

• lover relationship with Gable, Clark (born 1 February 1901). Notes: Rumoured romance

• lover relationship with Gilbert, John (born 10 July 1897). Notes: 1931-1932

• lover relationship with Johnson, Jack (born 28 November 1909). Notes: Early 1940s

• lover relationship with Remarque, Erich Maria (born 22 June 1898). Notes: 1941

• spouse relationship with Weissmuller, Johnny (born 2 June 1904). Notes: 1933-1939

Events

• Relationship : Marriage 8 October 1933 (Johnny Weismuller)
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• Relationship : Divorce dates August 1939 (Johnny Weismuller)
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• Death by Suicide 14 December 1944 (OD on pills, age 35)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry dated 21 Dec 1927 from Distrito Federal México archives, stating that "Guadalupe Villalobos y Vélez" was born in San Luis Potosí on 18 July 1909 at 2:30 AM to "Jacobo Villalobos Reyes" (father) and "Josefina Vélez" (mother).

According to the biography, Lupe Vélez: a medio siglo de ausencia by Moisés Vázquez Corona (EDAMEX, 1996), p. 9, she was the "penúltima" (second-last born) of five children; four girls: Mercedes, Reyna, Josefina, María Guadalupe, and a boy, Emigdio (in that order of birth). However, Scholfield provided birth entries for Josefina de las Mercedez (24 April 1902, 10:30pm, San Luis Pótosí); Luisa [Reyna?] (18 Oct 1903, 10pm, San Luis Pótosí); Josefina Ines (born 19 March 1905, 10pm, San Luis Potosí); and Maria Luisa (born 31 Dec 1906, 24hrs, San Luis Potosí); but found none for her brother.

Previously this entry had a time of 10AM and a year of 1908 with the following notes: Davison in Kosmos 5/1970 and in AQ Summer/1966, gives 18 July 1909. (Davison writes "Source not recorded, not remembered."). Eardley has 1908, source not given. PT notes that IMDB.com and other internet sources give 1908 and downgraded this from C to XX rating in April 2005. Atr changed to 1908, as the majority of sources has that.

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Temper (Emotional And Fiery)

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted

• Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (One)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (One)

• Family : Parenting : Kids none

• Lifestyle : Financial : Loss - Bankruptcy

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (Move to U.S.)

• Personal : Death : Suicide (Pills, OD)

• Personal : Death : Unusual (Possibly drowned in toilet)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress

• Vocation : Entertainment : Comedy

• Vocation : Entertainment : Night Club/ Vaudeville

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Dancer/ Teacher

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women