LUPE VELEZ

From Stars of the Photoplay (1930)

WITH Douglas Fairbanks in "The Gaucho," Lupe Velez burst into public favor like a skyrocket. But for years previous to this she appeared in musical comedies both in the United States and in her native Mexico. Her mother was an opera singer and her father a colonel in the Mexican army. She has black hair, dark brown eyes, is 5 feet 2, and weighs 112. Lupe was born in San Luis Potosi, a suburb of Mexico City, July 18, 1909, and was educated in a convent. The family name was Villabalos.

From Stars of the Photoplay (1930)
WITH Douglas Fairbanks in "The Gaucho," Lupe Velez burst into public favor like a skyrocket. But for years previous to this she appeared in musical comedies both in the United States and in her native Mexico. Her mother was an opera singer and her father a colonel in the Mexican army. She has black hair, dark brown eyes, is 5 feet 2, and weighs 112. Lupe was born in San Luis Potosi, a suburb of Mexico City, July 18, 1909, and was educated in a convent. The family name was Villabalos.

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