Two experts explain to IndieWire why, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, Velez still remains a Hollywood footnote, despite proof of her unique contributions to the silver screen. By the time she ...
When Hollywood actress Lupe Velez had a brief stopover at Stinson Field — just 10 minutes, according to the San Antonio Express, Sept. 23, 1939, en route from Mexico City to Los Angeles — she may have ...
If you know the name at all — and even some movie buffs don't — it's probably for all the wrong reasons. But without the trail she blazed, there might be no Rita Moreno, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Lopez or ...
Dear Gabacho: “I wish I could say that ‘Mexican Spitfire’ Lupe Velez was to blame for the ‘spicy’ epithet so often associated with Mexican femme pulchritude,” says William Nericcio, author of ...
Dear Gabacho: “I wish I could say that ‘Mexican Spitfire’ Lupe Velez was to blame for the ‘spicy’ epithet so often associated with Mexican femme pulchritude,” says William Nericcio, author of ...