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

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Awesome LUPE VELEZ Tumblr Mini-Archive | Vintagegal

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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...

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Mexican Spitfire Pirate Girl: Lupe Velez by Enoch Bolles

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Lupe Vélez's Talents! Watch as She Mimics Dolores del Río, Simone Simon, Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple

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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Remarkable Mexican Spitfire Lobby Card Auction

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Lupe Velez Sighting! The Mexican Spitfire

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Lupe Velez Sighting | Via HERITAGE Auctions

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and, as a bonus! Rita Hayworth

Lupe Velez in PALOOKA | The entire movie...

My essays on Lupe Velez appear in Tex[t]-Mex and in Myra Mendible's From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture--there are minor differences between the two publications.  Each has a section that takes a look at the Lupe Velez vehicle JOE PALOOKA, streaming in its entirety above.

Lupe Velez, Colorized or the Mexican Spitfire Revisited

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Yet Another Classic LUPE VELEZ Auction at Heritage | Primetime MEXICAN SPITFIRE

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Women in Early Film—an Exhibit with focus on Mexican-American Women

Thought I'd share a fairly thoughtful on-line exhibit from The Women's National History Museum, a particularly germane segment of which focuses on Mexican-American women such as Dolores Del Rio and Lupe Veléz. This little historical showcase speaks to the racial/gendered/integumentary dynamics and strains Mexican and Mexican-American actresses experienced in (the oft cinematic-chauvanistic cesspool that was old) Hollywood. Worth a gander. En la lucha.   —Marc García-Martínez, Ese at large

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
Nericcio García
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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!