Word: lupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady of the Pavements (United Artists). D. W. Griffith's feeling for costume gives a certain conviction to the romantic story of a French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when...
Wolf Song (Paramount). Hill scenery is the background of this intelligent attempt to fit music into a romantic story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
Vivacious and increasingly competent as an actress, Lupe Velez was born in San Luis Potosi, seven days by donkey from Mexico City. When she was twelve she danced at a church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month...
...press agentry recently included a story of Lupe's gifts from her leading-man ("sweetie"), Gary Cooper. These were two live, well-mated, very hungry eagles, and one stuffed eagle. Lupe was quoted: "Thees heegles-they eat and eat, now that damn mamma heegle, I hate her, for I theenk she get more and more fat and pretty soon poor Lupe she have little heegles all over the place, all eating rabbits and more round steak...
...LOVERS SPEEDY (Harold Lloyd), THE PATSY (Marion Davies), CHICKEN A LA KING (Ford Sterling), THE CIRCUS (Charles Chaplin), THE GAUCHO (Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez...