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| Lupe Vélez |
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born:
18 July 1908 San Luis Potosi, Mexico |
died:
13 December 1944 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America (suicide by barbiturates (Seconal), age 36) |
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Fiesty leading Latin-American actress who was 'famous' for a variety of reasons: she married Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller in 1933
(they divorced six years later) and is remembered for one of the most bizarre and embarrassing suicides in Hollywood history - an urban legend which later turned out to be fabricated (it was reported that she drowned in a toilet after becoming violently ill). She was also pregnant at the time of her death. Lupe is buried at the Panteon Civil de Dolores in Mexico City. |
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Real name: María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos Height: 5'0" |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography; plus 1 film with Laurel & Hardy. |
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