Monday, December 29, 2025

How did I never hear about or run across Lupe Velez in DW Griffith's Lady of the Pavements, Pure #textmex Cinema!

What kind of researcher am I!? How did I never hear about or run across Lupe Velez in DW Griffith's Lady of the Pavements, an artifact of pure #textmex cinema!

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.[3]




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