List of the best Lupe Velez movies: East Is West(1930), The Girl From Mexico(1939), The Half-Naked Truth(1932), Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event(1943), Hell Harbor(1930), Mexican Spitfire Out West(1940), Mexican Spitfire at Sea(1942), Mexican Spitfire's Baby(1941), Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost(1942), The Gaucho(1927), Where East Is East(1929), Kongo(1932) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
75 Minutes
Lupe Velez Lew Ayres Edward G. Robinson E. Alyn Warren Tetsu Komai Henry Kolker Mary Forbes Edgar Norton Charles Middleton Jean Hersholt
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Comedy
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Linda Hayes Donald MacBride Edward Raquello Elisabeth Risdon Ward Bond
advertising executive singer uncle fiancée wealthy man wrestler spirited playful mexico new york city baseball field wrestling ring radio station nightclub singing culture clash advertising radio jealousy engagement
An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée.
Comedy
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Teresita
carnival barker exotic dancer sheriff theatrical producer friend madcap lighthearted hilarious new york city hotel office theater carnival broadway carnivals relationships blackmail assumed identity love interest love
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.
Comedy
USA
1943
63 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Walter Reed Elisabeth Risdon Lydia Bilbrook Hugh Beaumont Aileen Carlyle
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
Drama
USA
1930
90 Minutes
Anita Morgan
Lupe Velez Jean Hersholt John Holland Gibson Gowland Al St. John Paul E. Burns
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.
Comedy
1940
76 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Elisabeth Risdon Cecil Kellaway Linda Hayes Lydia Bilbrook
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) heads for Reno, followed by her husband (Donald Woods) and Uncle Matt/Lord Epping (Leon Errol).
Comedy
1942
72 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers ZaSu Pitts Elisabeth Risdon Florence Bates Marion Martin Lydia Bilbrook Eddie Dunn Harry Holman
Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) poses as Lord Epping and helps Carmelita's (Lupe Velez) husband clinch a shipboard deal.
Comedy
1941
70 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Lydia Bilbrook ZaSu Pitts Fritz Feld Marion Martin Lloyd Corrigan Vinton Haworth Tom Kennedy
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) and her husband's (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) French war "baby" is a blonde named Fifi.
Comedy
1942
70 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Donald MacBride Minna Gombell Don Barclay
Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) uses dog fur to pose as Lord Epping on business with Carmelita (Lupe Velez), but a group of saboteurs up to no good in the basement try to drive them away by making the house seem haunted by ghosts.
Adventure, Romance, Western
USA
1927
102 Minutes
Douglas Fairbanks Lupe Velez Geraine Greear Eve Southern Gustav von Seyffertitz Michael Vavitch Charles Stevens Nigel de Brulier Albert MacQuarrie Mary Pickford
leader general young woman bandit villager priest melodramatic spectacular amusing andes mountains village romantic dilemma faith power struggle crime outlaws adventure love rivalry pursuit
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1929
70 Minutes
Toyo Haynes
Lon Chaney Lupe Velez Lloyd Hughes Estelle Taylor Louis Stern Duke Kahanamoku Mrs. Wong Wing Richard R. Neill
When an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.
Horror
USA
1932
85 Minutes
Walter Huston Lupe Velez Conrad Nagel Virginia Bruce C. Henry Gordon Mitchell Lewis Forrester Harvey Curtis Nero
king trader nun explorer native dark disturbing jungle village trading post convent insanity abduction mistaken identity vengeance torture revenge quest 1930s
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1931
106 Minutes
english gentleman native american woman earl lady brother cattle rustler melodramatic passionate fiery tender england arizona desert ranch frontier american southwest interracial romance secret love love triangle starting over
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin Marjorie Rambeau Robert Armstrong Mary Carlisle William Cagney Thelma Todd Franklyn Ardell Tom Dugan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Vera
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Norman Foster William Gargan Marian Nixon The Mills Brothers Eugene Pallette Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Leila Bennett Franklin Pangborn
A struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions.
Musical
1931
80 Minutes
Nenita Lopez
Lawrence Tibbett Lupe Velez Jimmy Durante Ernest Torrence Karen Morley Hale Hamilton Mathilde Comont Philip Cooper Louise Fazenda
A Marine (Lawrence Tibbett) loves a peanut vendor (Lupe Velez) in Cuba and goes back with a buddy (Jimmy Durante) after the war to find her.
Drama
1934
75 Minutes
Slim Girl
Ramon Novarro Lupe Velez Chief Thunderbird William B. Davidson Catalina Rambula Harlan Knight F.A. Armenta Deer Spring
A Navajo warrior marries a woman who covets the lifestyle of the white settlers, eventually leading to tragedy.
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Juanita
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Lupe Velez Marjorie Lord Jack Carson Paul Harvey Charles Judels Lucien Prival Herbert Evans Herbert Clifton George Irving
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Pepper
Comedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Carmen del Toro
Kay Kyser John Barrymore Lupe Velez Patsy Kelly Ginny Simms May Robson Peter Lind Hayes Harry Babbitt
john barrymore kay kyser bandleader singer dancer grandmother airy amusing charming playful radio station theater nightclub hotel room radio big-band music actors william shakespeare publicity stunts song and dance
Lulu Monahan (Patsy Kelly), the press agent for John Barrymore (John Barrymore),is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser (... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
68 Minutes
The Jaguar Woman, Jane in Schnarzan Sequence, Herself
Jimmy Durante Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Lupe Velez Polly Moran Charles Butterworth Eddie Quillan June Clyde George Givot Jack Pearl Ted Healy
actor manager baron millionaire explorer frenetic amusing campy movie theater mansion party show business lions party dreams competition rivalry pursuit 1930s
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »