New LUPE VELEZ Auction at Heritage: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)

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Lupe Velez Sunday

a smattering of Lupe Velez-laced lobby cards and promotional photos lifted off the world wide web this fine sunday morning, january 6, 2013...

as with most images on the textmex galleryblog, clicking makes them mucho mas bigger!

Mexican Spitfire Pirate Girl: Lupe Velez by Enoch Bolles

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Lupe Velez Screenings Coming up on TCM

Stop the presses! Old Friend/Collaborator Kristy Rawson has breaking news:

"Hi: Wanted to pass this along: TCM is doing a Jimmy Durante day. Two of the four films he made with Lupe Vélez are scheduled to air on the 20th: Strictly Dynamite (1934) at 1:45pm est, and and Cuban Love Song (1931) at 9:15am est. The latter features the first major transnational Cuban jazz hit, "El Manicero" (The Peanut Vendor)... CLS was produced to exploit the popularity of "El Manicero" in the U.S., but the film caused big upset in Cuba. These are both historically interesting, problematic films. I don't think either of them is available on DVD yet... (although I could be wrong about that; some Lupe films have been recently released). best, Kristy

Here are some scenes from each cool flick!!!!

Remarkable Photo of LUPE VELEZ, now on Auction @ Heritage...

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Lupe Velez Sighting | Via HERITAGE Auctions

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and, as a bonus! Rita Hayworth

Lupe Velez, Colorized or the Mexican Spitfire Revisited

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Lupe Velez with CHIP AND CHOP!

original posting: 5/17/10 updated 6/21/11

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More on Lupe and her chihuahuas, here...

KONGO Now Available! Classic Lupe Velez Schlockfest NOW on DVD!

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UPDATE a video with more stereotypes than you can shake a stick at appears below the linked image...

Lupe Vélez Back in Print or the "Mexican Spitfire" Rides Again...

Lupe Vélez: The Mexican Spitfire! Great Compilation Video on YouTube

The most challenging chapter of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America* appears near the end and treats with the life, career, and tragic suicide of Mexico's version of Lucille Ball, Lupe Vélez--maybe it's better to say that Lucille Ball was the U.S. version of Lupe Vélez as certain aspects of the ballyhooed redhead's act no doubt derived from screenings of Lupe's amazing cinematic antics--for the record, Vélez was born in '08; Ball in '11.

In any event, they were BOTH funny and both had an impact on American cinematic comedy that lasts to the present day. Check out Lupe's amazing range in this YouTube compilation video I just ran across:

*An early incarnation of the Lupe Vélez chapter appears here. Another version appears in Myra Mendible's From Bananas to Buttocks (you've got to love that title!); the final version appears in Tex[t]-Mex. As for the chapter being "challenging", I don't really know, but my undergraduates do give me grief for it from time to time!

The Beautiful and the Damned: New Art Featuring the Ghosts of Lupe Velez and Others

The most difficult (so weary-eyed students tell me) and experimental chapter of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican in America features the one and only Mexican Spitfire, Lupe Velez; now, an artist in the UK is cutting loose with semiotic meditations on Lupe and other fallen icons of the silver screen. Hit the image below for the link:

Of Lupe Velez, Celebrity as Deity, and More: An Interview with Russell Brand | via Boingboing.net

"Lupe Icon" by Guillermo
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In "the hardest to read"* chapter in Tex[t]-Mex, the forth chapter on Lupe Vélez entitled, "Lupe Vélez Regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex: Cautionary, Indigestion-Inspiring Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets," I play with the idea of celebrities in the early 20th century as newly minted "saints," with la Lupe a kind of early 20th century martyr--of no little assistance in this vein are the findings of Jeffrey F. Hamburger on the vera ikon or "Veronica" (that scene in the new testament, immortalized in the stations of the cross, "station 6", where Jesus leaves his face on a "Veronica's" handkerchief, aka, the first snapshot).

You can see this idea reappear, with post-modern trappings, in this compelling interview with Russell Brand on boingboing.

*A recent comment by one of my "robotic" undergraduates!

Cool New Lupe Velez Autograph Auction at Heritage! More Tales of Mexico's Original "Spitfire"

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A Questionable Act of Art: The Lupe Velez Toilet Seat Art Canvas

New Orson Welles and Lupe Velez Images: Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America

Just time this morning for a few new pictures from the 'net and one new auction featuring a 50th anniversary poster for Orson Welles's CITIZEN KANE.

Rita Hayworth: Classic SALOME Movie Poster

Regular readers of this blog know I am a Rita Hayworth aficionado. Here's a cool poster from the folks at Heritage. Also cool? These Lupe Velez glossies.

Post-Thanksgiving Lupe Velez Trailer

Laurel and Hardy, with LUPE VELEZ, the Mexican Spitfire

...a derridean allegory on reproduction, no doubt!

...lupe's range was amazing....

Lupe Vélez cruza la frontera otra vez

Loyal reader and newly appointed Midwest Correspondent Kristy Rawson writes in with a posting regarding the one and only MEXICAN SPITFIRE, Lupe Vélez!

Last summer while in Mexico, googling the long-departed actress Lupe Vélez, I stumbled upon the existence of a Mexican biopic, a 30-minute mediometraje realized in December of 2007 and given the English-language title FOREVER LUPE. According to the writer/researcher/director, Martín Caballero, the film portrays the “human side” of Ms. Vélez, a figure whose legacy, Caballero insists (I think rightly), has been colored by lies, omissions and scandalous exaggerations. Shortly after my discovery the trailer for the film turned up on youtube:



But you won’t find an IMDb.com page for the film, or much other information in English.

Back in Mexico this summer I again googled the film and its director, Martín Caballero, finding only the same brief items I had saved from the year before. It seems the film showed just once, at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico D. F., and subsequently disappeared, leaving only scattered traces online... including an outpost on Facebook which was being received by about 40 fans last I checked.

It’s pure coincidence that I was in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Lupe’s hometown, when the Facebook page posted news that FOREVER LUPE was coming to The States. It will show as part of the Seattle Latino film festival, Cineseattle, sometime between September 24 and 27. (Cineseattle’s program isn’t entirely set yet but stay tuned here).

Since the announcement last month I’ve been able to find out just a bit more about the fate of the production in Mexico over the past year and a half. But recent articles have revealed nothing more regarding the content of the film than had this item from 2007. I’ll report back after the Seattle festival!

To close? What else? Lupe Vélez:

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Martin Cabellero writes in with some nice words! We are working now to try to bring the movie to San Diego for a screening!

WILLIAM:

HELLO WILLIAM, MY NAME IS MARTIN CABALLERO AND I´M THE DIRECTOR OF "FOREVER LUPE" THE FILM ABOUT LUPE VELEZ AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS ABOUT MY FILM AND LUPE, I´M SO GLAD BECAUSE I WANT TO SHOW HER AS I THINK SHE WAS. LUPE WAS A GREAT ACTRESS, SINGER, DANCER-- A REAL ARTIST.

FOREVER LUPE IS MY TRIBUTE TO HER MEMORY. WITH THIS E-MAIL I SEND ALONG SOME PICS OF MARIELI ROMO, THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS THE ROLE OF LUPE IN FOREVER LUPE, AND A RARE PIC OF LUPE, MEXICO CITY, 1925.

SINCERELY
MARTÍN CABALLERO