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Lupe Vélez

1908 - 1944

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María Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944) was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short in 1927. By the end of the decade, she was acting in full-length silent films and had progressed to leading roles in The Gaucho (1927), Lady of the Pavements (1928) and Wolf Song (1929), among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lupe Vélez is the 2,243rd most popular actor (down from 2,027th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Mexican Actor.

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Among actors, Lupe Vélez ranks 2,243 out of 13,578. Before her are Marlon Jackson, Kathy Baker, Pilar Bardem, Mustafa Nadarević, Elizabeth McGovern, and Dilip Kumar. After her are Susan Sullivan, Andrey Myagkov, John Williams, Vanity, Nolan North, and Timothy Hutton.

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Among people born in 1908, Lupe Vélez ranks 146. Before her are Petro Shelest, Mel Blanc, Luis Regueiro, Karel Ančerl, Giacomo Manzù, and Ahmad Shukeiri. After her are Bruno Lüdke, Carl Laemmle Jr., Son Ngoc Thanh, Jack Crawford, Fritz Fischer, and Doria Shafik. Among people deceased in 1944, Lupe Vélez ranks 157. Before her are Walter Heitz, Franz Kutschera, J. Walter Christie, Riccardo Zandonai, Léon Brunschvicg, and Noor Inayat Khan. After her are Kaj Munk, Mineichi Koga, Bruno Lüdke, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Gabriel Hanotaux, and Ramón Castillo.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Lupe Vélez ranks 125 out of 729. Before her are Ricardo Rodríguez (1942), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Ce Acatl Topiltzin (947), Tlacaelel (1397), and Fernando Colunga (1966). After her are Jorge Negrete (1910), Rafael Márquez (1979), Jacqueline Andere (1938), Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1889), Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), and Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1877).

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Among ACTORS In Mexico

Among actors born in Mexico, Lupe Vélez ranks 20. Before her are Chespirito (1929), Laura Harring (1964), Sara Ramirez (1975), Edith González (1964), Helena Rojo (1944), and Fernando Colunga (1966). After her are Jacqueline Andere (1938), Kitten Natividad (1948), Susana Dosamantes (1948), Demián Bichir (1963), Adriana Barraza (1956), and Antonio Aguilar (1919).

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